Key Identification Features
- The outer edges of the upper margins of the eye orbits are triangular and distinctly point forward.
- The inner palm surface of the larger claw has stridulating (sound-producing) ridges in both sexes, a feature important for identifying different species in the subfamily Ocypodinae.
- Younger individuals can be identified by examining their stridulating ridges and gonopod shape.
- In larger individuals, the outer edges of the eye-sheaths are sharp, broadly triangular, and point distinctly sideways.
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