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Hippa mole crab (no English common name)
Hippa indica
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 467815, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Hippa mole crab (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Hippa indica
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Family
- Hippidae (mole crabs)
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A mole crab: an egg-shaped crab that burrows backwards into sand at the swash zone of beaches and filters food from the backwash.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=3, 3 observers).
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467815
- inaturalist.org /taxa/1188745
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.