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Box Crab Spawning - Video footage This is a female Box Crab - Calappa hepatica, releasing her eggs to the water column. The babies will be carried away by the current until they settles down in the sandy bottom.<br />
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Box Crab Spawning - Video footage

This is a female Box Crab - Calappa hepatica, releasing her eggs to the water column. The babies will be carried away by the current until they settles down in the sandy bottom.

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Ferdy Christant

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Magical photo, the species, the behavior, the light...mind blown. Posted 9 years ago

Ferdy Christant

Lion

PS: updated the description to include the awesome video, in case people do not see it from the species record. Posted 9 years ago
1. Albert Kang
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks, fchristant :) Posted 9 years ago

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The Common Box Crab

''Calappa hepatica'' is a common benthic species of box crab of tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Red Sea.

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Similar species: Decapods

Species identified by Albert Kang

By Albert Kang

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Uploaded Aug 7, 2016. Captured Jan 11, 2013 17:30 in Mabini Circumferential Rd, Mabini, Batangas, Philippines.

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