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Smooth-handed ghost crab
Ocypode cordimana
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207585, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Smooth-handed ghost crab
- Scientific
- Ocypode cordimana
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Crabs
- Depth and habitat
- Shore: beaches, rocks and coastal vegetation at and above the high-tide line
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
The smooth-handed ghost crab is a pale ghost crab with long legs and stalked eyes that lives in burrows high on sandy beaches, often among the vegetation. It comes out mainly at night.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=3); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=31, 28 observers); literature records via OBIS.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Ocypode-cordimana.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207585
- inaturalist.org /taxa/123384
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:BBayCrab.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.