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Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Order Decapoda > Brachyurans > Superfamily Ocypodoidea > Genus Uca
Tiny colourful fiddler crab
awaiting identification*
Family Ocypodidae
updated Dec 2019
Where seen? This fiddler crab with red eyes on a dark eye stalk and a rather short and stout enlarged pincer is seen in the back mangroves.

Features: Body width 1-1.5cm. Body somewhat triangular. Red eyes on a pale or yellow eye stalk.

Chek Jawa, Mar 09

Chek Jawa, Mar 11

Chek Jawa, Mar 09

Chek Jawa, Mar 09

*Species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.

Tiny colourful fiddler crabs on Singapore shores
On wildsingapore flickr

Other sightings on Singapore shores


Chek Jawa, Dec 20
Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on facebook.

Chek Jawa, Dec 20
Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on facebook.
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