Tags: Crustacean.
Uca chlorophthalmus is a common fiddler crab found in the mangroves of East Africa from Somalia to South Africa as well as Madagascar and Mauritius. Marsh fiddlers dig burrows in the muddy or sandy banks of salt marshes which they use to protect themselves from predators high tide and extreme temperatures. They feed by filtering detritus out of mud and defend their burrows against other fiddler crabs. U.
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