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;Blue sand crabs: The aggressive blue sand crab is the most numerous of the few species on the desert [[:category: Islands|island]] of [[Tapoa]]. | ;Blue sand crabs: The aggressive blue sand crab is the most numerous of the few species on the desert [[:category: Islands|island]] of [[Tapoa]]. | ||
;Burrowing silt crabs: These small black arthropods of the [[Mnemosyne Delta]] are difficult to spot. True to their name, they burrow into the silt of the riverbed for safety, emerging only to change position or to catch prey with their broad, stubby claws. | |||
;Fiddler crabs: Blue-green fiddler crabs march up and down the [[Eastern shore]] of Sapience, avoiding sand boas and sandpipers. One of its claws is distinctly larger than the other, and as the smaller claw moves food towards the mouth, the crab appears to be playing the larger claw like a fiddle. | ;Fiddler crabs: Blue-green fiddler crabs march up and down the [[Eastern shore]] of Sapience, avoiding sand boas and sandpipers. One of its claws is distinctly larger than the other, and as the smaller claw moves food towards the mouth, the crab appears to be playing the larger claw like a fiddle. | ||