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Description • The ghost crab is pale with a light pattern on its body, and 10 white speckled legs that allow them to move forward or sideways with speed. They are difficult to see because they blend in with the sand and so named the Ghost Crab. This is not an easy crab to catch and is the only ghost species seen by day primarily at dusk or dawn. Habitat • Ghost crabs lives in sandy burrows on the beach close to the water, however the Pallid Ghost Crab live higher on the beach. Their burrows are at the base of a fan-shaped pattern of small sand clumps created by the crabs excvated sand. Diet •. The ghost crab is carnivorous and cannibalistic.
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