#Sand Crab

[amnhnyc]

Have you ever seen one of these critters at the beach? Also known as “sand crabs” or “sand fleas,” Pacific mole crabs (Emerita analoga) can be found across the western coasts of North and South America. East Coast residents might encounter their relatives, the Atlantic sand crabs (Emerita talpoida), during summertime beach trips. Mole crabs migrate with the tides, keeping up with breaking waves to filter feed on plankton brought in by the crashing waters. These critters use their back legs to get around, and they burrow backwards, too.

Photo: eeowes, CC BY-NC 4.0, flickr

[daily-crabbys]

Today's crab is: weird little thing

[drafthearse]

Lepidopa websteri, 15mm. Lower Chesapeake Bay, Silver Beach, Northampton County, VA - 02/20/14. Caught by VIMS Trawl Survey. Photo by Robert Aguilar, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

[corviisquire]

showing my sister how to put back caught sand crabs DID NOT go well

[crabsinvideogames]

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening / The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX

Three sand crabs can be found on the Toronbo Shores, to the east of Link's sword in the game's intro. Sand crabs can also be found in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, with their sprite in the GameBoy releases being reused in The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. On the Switch remake, their model resembles it's appearance in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.

[kittyglitter31415926]

I'm not sorry for this!

[monstersoffilgaia]

[wanderfan2000]

Sand Crab: Ah, I adore the beach. 

[spokenswords178]

[glassjunglelive]

I went to the beach and found this little dude

[daily-crabbys]

Today's crab is: sand flea

[heartnosekid]

colorful box crab (cycloes granulosa) | source

[hawkpartys]

Snowy Plover (Anarhynchus nivosus) eating a Pacific Sand Crab (Emerita analoga)

[crabsinvideogames]

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

The sand crab would later appear in this game's remake, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Joke Time:

So there's these two sea creatures (it's not important what type of sea creatures they are) and they're having a great conversation when one of them remembers, the time they went to San Francisco and partied the night away at a Disco owned by a Sand Crab.

Anyway they start getting really nostalgia about such a magical night and discussed what happened etc.

Then they admit finally to their friend that they left their heart in Sand Crab's Disco.

🦀🕺💃

[lightmotif139]

Pacific sand crab a.k.a. mole crab (Emerita analoga)