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Ocypode quadrata (Atlantic ghost crab)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Atlantic ghost crab, Ocypode quadrata, is a species of ghost crab, once described as an "occult, secretive alien from the ancient depths of the sea". It is a common species along the Atlantic coast of the United States, where it is the only species of ghost crab; its range of distribution extends from its northernmost reach on beaches in Westport, Massachusetts, south along the coasts of the tropical Western Atlantic Ocean to the beach of Barra do Chui, in Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  35 grams
Speed [1]  1.857 MPH (.83 m/s)

Prey / Diet

Caretta caretta (Loggerhead)[2]
Chelonia mydas (Green Turtle)[2]
Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle)[2]
Donax variabilis (variable coquina)[1]
Emerita talpoida (Atlantic sand crab)[1]

Predators

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1LOCOMOTOR BEHAVIOR OF NOCTURNAL GHOST CRABS ON THE BEACH: FOCAL ANIMAL SAMPLING AND INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY FROM THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION ANALYSIS, RANDI B. WEINSTEIN, The Journal of Experimental Biology 198, 989–999 (1995)
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
3Diet of two sympatric carnivores, Cerdocyon thous and Procyon cancrivorus, in a restinga area of Espirito Santo State, Brazil, Andressa Gatti, Rita Bianchi, Claudia Regina Xavier Rosa and Sérgio Lucena Mendes, Journal of Tropical Ecology (2006) 22:227–230
4CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0