Milky Fiddler Crab
Austruca lactea
Photo: harum.koh from Kobe city, Japan / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
The milky fiddler crab is a small crab whose male has one oversized white claw, waved on tidal flats to attract females. It lives in burrows and retreats into them as the tide rises. The Manose River estuary in Kagoshima is a Natural Monument for its hibiscus stand and tidal-flat community, in which this crab is a signature animal.
- Scientific name
- Austruca lactea
- Group
- Crustaceans
- Prefectures
- Kagoshima
- Japanese Red List (Ministry of the Environment)
- VulnerableMinistry of the Environment Red List 2020
- 日本語
- ハクセンシオマネキ
- 简体中文
- 乳白招潮蟹
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The Milky Fiddler Crab is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Kagoshima.
The Milky Fiddler Crab is listed as "Vulnerable" in the Ministry of the Environment Red List 2020 (listed as ハクセンシオマネキ).
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