Predators

Known predators of  M. longicarpus include;

Birds: straw necked Ibis, eastern curlews, mangrove kingfisher, white crane

Crustaceans: ghost crab, grapsid crab, fiddler crab

Fish: toad fish

Molloucs: moonsnails, sand snail (predates only on juveniles)

(Cameron, 1966; Zharikov & Skilleter, 2004; Huelsken, 2011; Takeda, 2010)

Photograph of a potential predator's tracks amongst solider crab burrows. Original photograph taken by Kate Buchanan (2014) in Scarborough, Qld.