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Atlantic ghost crabs

Atlantic ghost crabs is the plural of Atlantic ghost crab.

Meaning of Atlantic ghost crab

Noun

Atlantic ghost crab (plural Atlantic ghost crabs)

  1. Burrowing crab of the species Ocypode quadrata
    • The genus Ocypode was erected by Fabricius (1798) for two of his own species (1793), our Atlantic ghost crab and the racing crab of the coasts of India and Malaya.1946, Lorus J. Milne, Margery J. Milne, “Notes on the Behavior of the Ghost Crab”, in The American Naturalist, volume 80, number 792, Salem, USA: Essex Institute, →DOI, page 363

Questions about Atlantic ghost crabs

What is Atlantic ghost crabs the plural of?
Atlantic ghost crabs is the plural of Atlantic ghost crab.

Words near Atlantic ghost crabs in the dictionary

  1. Atlantic diet
  2. Atlantic diets
  3. Atlantic Flyway
  4. Atlantic Forest
  5. Atlantic ghost crab
  6. Atlantic ghost crabs
  7. Atlantic halibut
  8. Atlantic halibuts
  9. Atlantic herring
  10. Atlantic herrings
  11. Atlantic Highlands

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