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Emerita analoga
Mol Crab

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0906 0881 (2006-09-23)

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date of photo 1984

location Carmel Beach (Monterey County, California, US)

family Hippidae

order Decapoda

class Malacostraca

habitat sandy beaches

notes Female Emerita about 30 mm long. The underside of this female shows orange eggs that she is brooding between her thorax and her folded abdomen; her abdominal swimmerets hold the eggs in place.

camera Nikon

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Mol Crab (photographer)

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