common on the beaches. Make holes the size of your thumb in the sand, or depending on the size of the crab. This one was perhaps three inches across. Love the eye stalks.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Ocypode africana (male, 29 mm wide) from the Congo river estuary. Date: 10 November 2013, 17:08:15. Source: Mary J. Rathbun (1921). "The brachyuran crabs collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 43: 379–474. Author: Mary J. Rathbun (1860–1943) . . Description: American zoologist. Date of birth/death: 11 June 1860: 14 April 1943. Location of birth/death: Buffalo: Washington, D.C.. Authority control: : Q2679156VIAF: 61796012ISNI: 0000 0000 8141 4141LCCN: n91029090GND: 102002681SUDOC: 070495254WorldCat.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Ocypode africana (female) from the Congo river estuary. Date: 10 November 2013, 17:08:04. Source: Mary J. Rathbun (1921). "The brachyuran crabs collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 43: 379–474. Author: Mary J. Rathbun (1860–1943) . . Description: American zoologist. Date of birth/death: 11 June 1860: 14 April 1943. Location of birth/death: Buffalo: Washington, D.C.. Authority control: : Q2679156VIAF: 61796012ISNI: 0000 0000 8141 4141LCCN: n91029090GND: 102002681SUDOC: 070495254WorldCat.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Ocypode africana (male, front) from the Congo river estuary. Date: 10 November 2013, 17:09:03. Source: Mary J. Rathbun (1921). "The brachyuran crabs collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 43: 379–474. Author: Mary J. Rathbun (1860–1943) . . Description: American zoologist. Date of birth/death: 11 June 1860: 14 April 1943. Location of birth/death: Buffalo: Washington, D.C.. Authority control: : Q2679156VIAF: 61796012ISNI: 0000 0000 8141 4141LCCN: n91029090GND: 102002681SUDOC: 070495254WorldCat.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Ocypode africana (male, ventral) from the Congo river estuary. Date: 10 November 2013, 17:08:57. Source: Mary J. Rathbun (1921). "The brachyuran crabs collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 43: 379–474. Author: Mary J. Rathbun (1860–1943) . . Description: American zoologist. Date of birth/death: 11 June 1860: 14 April 1943. Location of birth/death: Buffalo: Washington, D.C.. Authority control: : Q2679156VIAF: 61796012ISNI: 0000 0000 8141 4141LCCN: n91029090GND: 102002681SUDOC: 070495254WorldCat.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Ocypode brevicornis front. Date: 11 November 2013, 19:38:49. Source: Edward J. Miers (1882). "On the species of Ocypoda in the collections of the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 (5): 304–317. Author: Edward J. Miers.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Ocypode brevicornis stridulating ridge. Date: 11 November 2013, 19:38:55. Source: Edward J. Miers (1882). "On the species of Ocypoda in the collections of the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 (5): 304–317. Author: Edward J. Miers.
Description: English: Crabs seem to enjoy warm Sun light - Chennai beach - India (Ocypode brevicornis). Date: 24 June 2007, 17:10. Source: Sand Crabs. Author: Balaji.B from Chennai, India.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Ocypode convexa - 1824 illustration. Date: 14 November 2013, 23:56:33. Source: Jean René Constant Quoy & Joseph Paul Gaimard (1824). "Zoologie". In Louis de Freycinet. Voyage autour du monde fait par ordre du Roi sur les corvettes de S. M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Chez Pillet Aîné. p. 525, pl. 77. Author: Jean René Constant Quoy & Joseph Paul Gaimard.