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;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. | ;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. | ||
; Cave crabs: Unlike their more colourful cousins, these crabs are milky white, due to the lack of sunlight in the sea caves of the [[Thraasi Foothills]]. They are known to cover themselves in seaweed for better camouflage. | |||
;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. | ||
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[[Category:Creatures of Sea Lion Cove]] | [[Category:Creatures of Sea Lion Cove]] | ||
[[Category:Creatures of Tapoa]] | [[Category:Creatures of Tapoa]] | ||
[[Category:Creatures of the Thraasi Foothills]] | |||
[[Category:Creatures of Mnemosyne Delta]] | [[Category:Creatures of Mnemosyne Delta]] | ||
[[Category:Creatures of Grukai Swamp]] | [[Category:Creatures of Grukai Swamp]] | ||