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	Emerita (genus) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Popularly known as both mole crabs and sand crabs, although like the true crabs they belong to the order Decapoda, they are classified in a different infraorder, Anomura (the true crabs are in the infraorder Brachyura).
		Sand crabs live under sand in shallow water near the shore, and live from two to three years.
		Mole crabs also eat the tentacles of Portuguese man o' war, which are collected by winding the tentacle around the mole crab's leg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mole_crab (214 words)

	Crab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Crabs are a very diverse group, mostly found in salt water, but with some groups living in freshwater or even on land.
		The crab louse is the origin of the slang term "crabs" for an infestation of pubic lice.
		A Crab is a type of scratch turntablists use, involving flickering the crossfader between your thumb and your fingers, starting with the pinky and ending with the index.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Crab (723 words)

	Mole Crabs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The eyes of the mole crab are on slender, white, hair-width stalks (the shorter, white projections on the right side of the crab in the upper photo).
		While it is not easy to know the first time which end of a mole crab is the front, you can find out by holding one in your hand and watching which direction the crab moves: the front end is the end to the rear of the direction of motion.
		Mole crabs are found along the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts southward.
	www.assateague.com /mole-cr.html (278 words)

	Crab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A crab is any of various crustaceans with four pairs of legs, a pair of pincers, a flattish shell, and a short, broad abdomen folded under its thorax.
		A Crab landing is a method of landing an airplane in a crosswind.
		A crab is a type of misapplied stroke in rowing when the oar is pulled round past the oarsman.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Crab (133 words)

	Mole crab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mole crabs are the color of rippled sand at the water's edge.
		Mole crabs also eat the tentacles of Portuguese man o' war.
		Mole crabs live from two to three years, but most don't make it to their reproductive age.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Mole-crab.htm (332 words)

	mole (zoology) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about mole (zoology)
		Moles grow up to 18 cm/7 in long, and have acute senses of hearing, smell, and touch, but poor eyesight.
		Moles are greedy eaters; they cannot live more than a few hours without food.
		The same ecological role is taken in Africa by the golden moles (family Chrysochloridae), and in Australia by marsupial moles (genus Notoryctes, order Marsupialia).
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /mole+(zoology) (269 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Mole Rat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mole Rat, common name for a small group of rodents that spend their entire lives underground, only coming to the surface when their tunnels are...
		Because much of Jordan consists of desert and dry plains, plant life is not abundant.
		Critics are generally agreed that it is as much a book for adults as for children.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Mole_Rat.html (102 words)

	85.07.03: The Crusty Fossils
		The gills of the terrestrial crabs are smaller than those of the marine crabs, however, the blood vessels are larger to maximize the absorption of oxygen.
		The box crab is also known as the bashful or shamefaced crab because when he wraps his claws around his body for protection it appears that he is hiding or being bashful.
		Blue crabs are known to live for three years, mole crabs for two years, and the small pea crabs for two to three years.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1985/7/85.07.03.x.html (6822 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Mole (mammal) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mammal, common name applied to any warm-blooded animal belonging to the class that includes human beings and all other animals that nourish their...
		Mole (mammal), common name for certain small, burrowing mammals characterized by a pointed snout; rudimentary eyes; soft, thick, velvety fur; short...
		Desman, common name for certain mammals in the mole family that lead a semi-aquatic existence beside ponds and streams, feeding on insects, fish, and...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Mole_(mammal).html (93 words)

	George MacGinitie
		The sand crab or mole crab, Emerita analoga (Simpson) (Fig.
		The crabs are preyed upon by animals lower in the water, and these animals perhaps had more effect upon the evolutionary choice of the burying activities of Emerita than had birds, for they no doubt were preying upon the crabs during the latter's evolution toward becoming sand-dwelling forms.
		Cancer crabs, swimming crabs (Portunus xantusii), croakers, corbina and the imported striped bass feed on the oceanward side of the beds of Emerita.
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Gorge/5604/macginitie1938b.htm (920 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Mole Crab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mole Crab, small, burrowing crab found on the exposed sandy beaches of the tropical Indian Ocean.
		Mole crabs have cylindrical bodies up to 1.5 cm (y...
		Mole (measurement), a measure of the amount of a substance in terms of the number of particles it contains.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Mole_Crab.html (99 words)

	Alliance for a Living Ocean ALOysius on Swallows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Mole Crab has a light yellowish shell, and the biggest ones are about 1 1/2 inches long.
		Mole Crabs have short, broad, flat legs which they use to dig in the sand.
		In the warmer months, the Mole Crabs live near where the waves break on the sandy beaches.
	www.livingocean.org /sandcrab.html (362 words)

	Long term Monitoring Program & Experiential Training for Students
		The Pacific mole crab (Emerita analoga), also known as the sand crab, is a common inhabitant of the sandy beach.
		Sand crabs live in the swash zone of the sandy beach intertidal zone.
		The main predators of the sand crab are fish, water birds, shorebirds, and the larger spiny sand crab.
	limpets.noaa.gov /monitoring/sandyBeach/species.html (458 words)

	Resource Collection
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	lookup-all.com /sites/moles.html (128 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Abundance of mole crabs, sediment grain size, wave height, and beach profile were evaluated at each site.
		On average, the occurrence of mole crabs was greater on non-replenished beaches.
		The data suggests that there may be a correlation between the sediment grain size and the occurrence of mole crabs, although this relationship cannot be clearly determined.
	www.uncwil.edu /smec/svsm/webpage98/abstracts/keicher_c.htm (200 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was hypothesized that the slope of the beach face, the grain size of the sediment, and the amount of organic material in the sediment would have no correlation with the location of the colonies.
		Mole crab colonies were found at Dune Ridge and Crystal Pier.
		It was discovered that mole crab colonies were found in steeper parts of the beach face, in fine to medium sand.
	www.uncwil.edu /SMEC/SVSM/webpage98/abstracts/stith_d.htm (170 words)

	Doug Uyematsu's Sand Crab
		The fly is intended to imitate the mole crab or sand crab.
		The tail (telson) of the crab is left off because it is not one of the obvious characteristics of the crab.
		The larger ones are extended by the crab when it is buried in the sand to allow for sensing its environment and for respiration.
	www.garybulla.com /dougcrab.htm (462 words)

	Pacific Mole Crab Flies
		The Pacific Mole Crab is one of the mainstay foods of the fishes in the surf zone.
		An even faster crab fly to tie is a pattern I threw together using 6 MM Multi-colored, Pearl Chenille by Tiewell wrapped on a hook, clipped flat on the belly and colored with an orange Sharpie pen.
		The “Baby Mole Crab”: This fly is just some gray poly yarn tied-on “Glo Bug” style and then doped with a little epoxy on the belly and colored with an orange Sharpie.
	home.xroad.com /members/710/PMC.htm (1480 words)

	Search Results for mole - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The River Mole, from which the district takes its name, flows northward across it to join the Thames at Hampton Court, west of London;...
		They are sufficiently different from other moles and insectivores to constitute their own mammalian...
		Among the several rodents referred to as “mole rats” (see zokor), the blind mole rat is among the...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=mole&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (427 words)

	Farallones: Sandcrabs Monitoring Project. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The sand crab is small in size, growing up to 35 mm long and 25 mm wide.
		Male and female sand crabs can to be distingushed by the presence or absence of pleopods.
		Female sand crabs have pleopods, males do not.The pleopods are used to hold the eggs after they have been fertilized.
	www.farallones.org /sandcrabs/history.asp (468 words)

	Mole Crabs
		The Mole Crabs (Hippidae): The Hippidae family of Mole Crabs is comprised of Emerita Genus and the Hippa Genus.
		The Mole Crabs reside buried in sifting sand on wave-swept beaches in areas washed by waves.
		There are four mole crabs found in Mexican waters, known as Muy-muy Cochitos.
	www.mexfish.com /fish/molecrabs/molecrabs.htm (227 words)

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		The prize meal in the surf is a female mole crab.
		This pattern immitates effectively mole crabs on both east and west costs.
		The mole crab is a common food item for everything from corbina to striped bass.
	www.jimsflies.com /store/product_info.php?products_id=145 (56 words)

	What I Did on my Summer Vacation
		Finally, add in a picture of a crab with its five pairs of legs and long eyestalks.
		There it is, your very own mole crab, the stuff of nightmares, the perfect horror movie.
		The best part, though, is that if you mention mole crabs - no, no! Better yet, point them out - to your mother, although I suppose any squeamish swimmer will do, she'll never step into the ocean again.
	www.geocities.com /jfayewv/words4.html (555 words)

	pastresstuds.html
		The effects of assay conditions on the activity of the sodium pump in the gills of the crab, Hemigrapsus nudus.
		Gill Na,K-ATPase and osmoregulation in the purple shore crab, Hemigrapsus nudus.
		William Forbes ('96), Function of the hindgut of the mole crab, Emerita talpoida.
	ww2.lafayette.edu /~hollidac/pastresstuds.html (825 words)

	Learn more about Crab in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Learn more about Crab in the online encyclopedia.
		Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
		Several similar animals, such as the crab louse, or the hermit crab, are also called crabs.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/cr/crab.html (154 words)

	Sarabellum: Wet and Salty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I was building sandcastles with some young friends of mine the other day and they asked me "What are those little white things in the sand?" Those little white things were mole crabs, also called sand fleas.
		This however is a confusing name for them since there are talitrid amphipods that live higher up on the sand surface (aka "beach hoppers") that are also called sand fleas.
		Mole crabs belong to the Infraorder Anomura, whereas true crabs belong to the Infraorder Brachyura.
	techhouse.brown.edu /~spg/molecrab.html (190 words)

	Y.P.R. Loves You Like a Fat Kid Loves Cake
		But, when the bathing suit hit the ground, it prompted the ghost crab to move in and examine the thing, which is when we saw it and then called everyone over to the deck to see.
		However, ghost crabs are not often eaten by people in the Carolinas; they are more often eaten by sea gulls, raccoons, and the kayak guy's dog.
		But don't worry: you can catch another two to five with the next wave if you use both hands.) Apparently, ghost crabs aren't quick to trust mole crabs that are left as offering just outside their holes in the dry sands, because you can crouch down there for a long time and they won't budge.
	www.yankeepotroast.org /daily/030908.html (792 words)

	Gallery :: Crustaceans
		Crab, Northern Kelp Crab 01, Van Is 110103
		Crab, Northern Kelp Crab 02, Jessie Is, Van Is 111403
		Crab, Pacific Mole Crab 05 Hippa Pacifica backview 080803
	www.stephenwong.com /gallery/Crustaceans?&page=2 (171 words)

	Environmental Reports
		The Horseshoe Crab is more a spider than a crab and is one of the oldest living creatures.
		The "telson" is the long horny tail of a horseshoe crab.
		Mole Crabs are an extremely important food source in nature's inter-tidal zone.
	www.csshome.com /reports.htm (677 words)

	Hermit Crabs - Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory
		Ar-1400 STRIPED HERMIT CRAB, Clibanarius vittatus, the hardiest of all species known in Gulf waters.
		Ar-1430 DWARF HERMIT CRAB, Pagurus longicarpus, a small, active hermit that starts scurrying about the minute it is placed in your aquarium.
		Ar-1440 MOLE CRAB, Emerita talpoida, an active small anomuran crustacean living in the surf zone.
	www.gulfspecimen.org /HermitCrabs.html (393 words)

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