Thick-legged fiddler crab
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| phylum | Arthropoda | Uca crassipes or the Thick-legged Fiddler Crab is a species of fiddler crab that lives in intertidal habitats distributed across the western Pacific Ocean. Uca crassipes has a natural range that extends from New Caledonia, to eastern Australian shores, the island of New Guinea, the Philippines, China and the southern most islands of Japan. They are a species which prefers mangrove habitats.
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| subphylum | Crustacea | |
| class | Malacostraca | |
| order | Decapoda | |
| infraorder | Brachyura | |
| family | Ocypodidae | |
| genus | Uca | |
| Species | U. crassipes |
