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Ghost Crab

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Ghost Crab

 

 

 

 

 

  • Ghost Crab is the common name.
  • The scientific class is Malacostraca.
  • Ocypode is the scientific Genus.
  • The species is quadrata.

 

  • Where is this awesome creature found?
  • In the Ocean Biome.
  • Ghost Crabs are found on the shores of  South Eastern United States, and Australia.

 

 

 

  •  Special adaptations to its enviroment are: Ghost Crabs can hold their breath when hibernatingfor 6 months by storing oxygen in air sacs near the gills. Ghost crabs defend themselves by fighting with their claws.
  •     Desription-
  • Length: 3.5   Height: 48 inches   
  • Type of body covering: Hard shell
  • The general description is smooth but hard shell, small black eyes that are on stalks, with 4 pairs of legs and 2 claws.
  • Ghost crabs are ectothermic.
  • Ghost Crab babies are called larvae.
  • A group of Ghost Crabs are a skuttle.
  • Ghost Crabs are secondary consumers and are omnivores. 
  • Here is my food chain for a Ghost Crab:

   One Tertiary Consumer is a seagull        

 

                       

 

Secondary Consumer is the Ghost Crab 

 

  

 Producer is Algae

Ghost Crab Food Web 

  •  Ghost crabs capture their food by digging and sifting through the ground then snatching it with its claws.
  • Predators that eat ghost crabs are seagulls, and larger fish.
  • Ghost crabs have claws to either attack or dig underground with and a hard shell to protect themselves. 
  • Ghost crabs prey mainly on algae and micro-organisms but if in alarger group then birds,fish, or anything else that is near by.
  • The ghost crab has a mutulism relationship with terns.When terns die ghost crabs eat them then the terns are not affected by a disease the tern could have carried.
  • The ghost crab can produce 3 kinds of sounds: a rapping of the claw on the substrate, a rasping stridulation of the legs, and a bubbling sound produced from the gill chamber. Ghost crabs also wave their claws to attract mates.
  • An interesting or unusual behavior is ghost crabs walk sideways and wave their claws to attract mates.
  • Ghost crabs are doing fine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 By: Jim Caldwell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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