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Ocypode cordimanus Desmarest, 1825

Smooth-handed ghost crab

Sharon Edgley (2011)


 

 

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Ocypode cordimanus - translate

Ghost crab = name from light colour and nocturnal habit (Karleskint, Turner, Small 2010... replace with lit)


"Males: single brushes on II and III pereiopods
Females: single brush on II pereiopod (

Carapace L: 35 mm max specimen
Carapace W: 40 mm ..     ..

Notches of lower orbital margin ... Median very slightly, lateral broad key-hole shaped

Fingers of small chela - acute
                 (Jones DS 1988)"

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