🦋 Family

Hippidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Hippidae

Emerita talpoida, the Atlantic mole crab, is a fossorial filter feeding New World sand crab found along western Atlantic shorelines.

Emerita analoga, the Pacific sand crab, is a small burrowing crustacean found on Pacific coast beaches with a range of ecological and human uses.

Emerita rathbunae is a sexually dimorphic mole crab native to eastern Pacific shores, with extreme size difference between males and females.

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