Sentence examples for fiddler crab from inspiring English sources
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A genus of crab in which the male has one hugely enlarged claw (genus Uca).
The invertebrate in question is an Australian fiddler crab, Uca mjoebergi.
In a report in Current Biology, they show that the fiddler crab Uca pugilator uses its stride to gauge distance.
A tiny channel sliced through the marsh, its banks lined with little snails and the odd fiddler crab.
The south tower of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna is "absurdly huge" like "the left claw of a fiddler crab, dwarfing the rest of the body".
Common North American species include the marsh fiddler crab (Uca pugnax), the china-back fiddler (U. pugilator), and the red-jointed fiddler (U. minax).
Bebop in particular produced more than one generation of players with a powerful right hand and a subordinate left hand: the piano-playing equivalent of a fiddler crab.
Fiddler crab, also called calling crab, any of the approximately 65 species of the genus Uca (order Decapoda of the subphylum Crustacea).
It pops out of, desk drawers, bookshelves and a hidden safe, crawls about like a fiddler crab, chokes people and plays concertos.
The exhibition also features an interactive fiddler crab burrow where children can climb through a tunnel to see crabs in their natural habitat.
Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate possible alterations in the ecosystem engineering activities of a fiddler crab community dominating the landward belts of Kenyan mangrove forests.
To examine whether female choice in the fiddler crab Uca mjoebergi is based on the comparative evaluation of males, I altered the social context in which a set of males were encountered.
