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