Bloom Native gardener's
field companion

Explore

Field report Layers Search
Log in Sign up
  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Malacostracans
  5. Decapods
  6. Ocypodoidea
  7. Ghost Crabs

family

Ghost Crabs

Ocypodidae

Includes
17 native 8 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Broad-fronted and Indo-west Pacific Fiddler Crabs 14 native
  • American Narrow-fronted and East Atlantic Fiddler Crabs 1 native
  • Ghost Crabs 1 native
  • Mangrove Ghost Crabs 1 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native ghost crabs All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab Leptuca pugilator 8,980 observations
  • Mud Fiddler Crab Minuca pugnax 4,873 observations
  • Red-jointed Fiddler Crab Minuca minax 2,844 observations

We can't find the internet

Attempting to reconnect

Something went wrong!

Attempting to reconnect