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Ebalia tuberosa (Pennant, 1777) Pennant's nut crab |
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photo by
Poppe, Guido and Philippe |
| Family: | Leucosiidae (purse crabs) | |||
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| Environment: | benthic; marine | |||
| Distribution: | Northeast Atlantic: Canary Is. and UK; North and Celtic seas. | |||
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| Biology: | Epibenthic (Ref. 87524). It is a mobile, deposit feeder (Ref. 96498), that forages on organisms in the sediment, a predator to swimming organisms and scavenges on crabs and polychaetes (Ref. 96589). | |||
| IUCN Red List Status: | Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251) | |||
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