Real Reddish Fiddler Crab (Fortune Crab) specimen encased in our proprietary developed lucite material(lower half part of the mouse). The specimen is crystal clear, transparent and indestructible. Safe,authentic and completely unbreakable specimen put the Crab right at your fingertips!
It glows in the dark!
Length of the Crab body is 1.8 cm (0.7 inch).
Size of the arcylic part is 5.3 x 5.0 x 2.5 cm (2.1x2x1 inch).
Size of the whole computer mouse is 9.8 x 6 x 3.4 cm(3.9x2.4x1.3 inch).
Weight of the computer mouse is 110 g (0.24 pound) and 130 g (0.29 pound) with packing box.
It is an ideal computer accessory and also a very good collectible item for every body.
This
is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The picture in my listing is just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with the same picture.
Afiddler crab, sometimes known as a calling crab, may be any of approximately 97 species of semi-terrestrial marine crabs within the genus Uca. Belonging to the family Ocypodidae, fiddler crabs are most closely related to the ghost crabs of the genus Ocypode.
Found in mangroves and on sandy or muddy beaches of West Africa, the Western Atlantic, Eastern Pacific and Indo-Pacific, fiddler crabs are easily recognized by their distinctively asymmetric claws. It is the males which boast an oversized claw or cheliped; it plays a role in courtship and signalling among conspecifics. The movement of the smaller claw during feeding, from the ground to the mouth, inspired the crabs' common name; to many, it appears as if the animal is playing a fiddle (the larger claw).
Reaching a diameter of between 2 and 4½ cm (1-2 inches), fiddler crabs may be tan, blue-green, turquoise, black, yellow, or orange in colour. Diurnal animals, the fiddler crabs are actually a darker colour by day than they are by night. They are an important source of food for shore birds and other animals inhabiting salt marshes. The crabs make burrows up to 60 cm (23 inches) deep in the muddy substrate to which they retreat during high tides. When the tide is out, fiddler crabs tirelessly scurry sideways along the beach as they comb the sands for food.
The crab's smaller claw picks up a chunk of sediment and brings it to the mouth, where its contents are sifted through. After anything edible is salvaged, be it algae, microbes, fungus, or other decaying detritus, the sediment is replaced in the form of a little ball. The presence of these sediment balls near the entrance to a burrow is a good indication of its occupation. The action of feeding fiddler crabs is thought to play a vital role in the preservation of wetland environments; by sifting through the sands, they aerate the substrate and prevent anaerobic conditions.
Fiddler crabs live rather brief lives of no more than two years. During courtship, the males wave their oversized claws high in the air and tap them on the ground in an effort to attract females. Fights between other males will also occur, which are presumably meant to impress the females; if a male loses his larger claw, the smaller one will begin to grow larger and the lost claw will regenerate into a new (small) claw. For at least some species of fiddler crabs, however, the small claw remains small, while the larger claw regenerates over a period of several molts, being about half its former size after the first molt.
The female fiddler carries her eggs in a mass on the underside of her body. She remains in her burrow during a two week gestation period, after which she ventures out to release her eggs into the receding tide. The larvae remain planktonic for a further two weeks.
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