Thursday, November 19, 2015

I hope you learn about ghost crabs

Ghost crab  
Ghost crab, Ocypodinae. The Ghost crab has the same color as the sand which helps it trick predators. The Domain is Eukaryote and the kingdom is Animalia. Phylum is Arthropoda and the class is Malacostraca. Order is decapoda and the family is Ocypodidae. Genus is Ocypode and species is Quadrata. The habitat of the Ghost crab is mostly in coastal beaches from Rhode Island to Brazil. A fun fact about the Ghost crab is that although they can move very fast and catch most of their prey they can't swim. The Ghost crab has Bilateral symmetry which means that if we cut the Ghost crab into two sides it would give the same shape. A structural adaptation is that the Ghost crab can make itself invisible. A functional adaptation is that they can burrow into the sand. A behavioral adaptation is that it flattens its body when a predator comes. The prey of the Ghost crab are small insects, algae and detritus eggs. Ghost crab are also heterotroph which means they eat other meats or plants. They are also exothermic which means they are cold blooded. I hope you learned about Ghost crab!!

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