Swamp Ghost Crab

Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus 1763)

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Ucides cordatus (Swamp Ghost Crab) is a species of decapods in the family Ocypodidae.

EOL has data for 19 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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is eaten by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002471
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Sciades couma (Valenciennes 1840) (Couma sea catfish)
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
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Sciades couma (Valenciennes 1840) (Couma sea catfish)
cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Avicennia germinans (L.) L. (Black Mangrove)
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Bahia
- URI: https://www.geonames.org/3471168
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habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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estuarine
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000020
- Definition: Expressions of the estuarine biome occur at wide lower courses of a rivers where they flow into a sea. Estuaries experience tidal flows and their water is a changing mixture of fresh and salt.
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locomotion
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0040011
- Definition: Self-propelled movement of a cell or organism from one location to another.
- Attribution: [database_cross_reference: GOC:dgh]
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walking
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000056
- Definition: locomoting on limbs with body off the ground such that at least one limb is always touching the ground
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mineralized skeleton contains
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/mineralizedSkeletonContains
- Definition: Component found in mineralized skeletal tissue, (a specialized form of biogenic tissue in which the extracellular matrix is mineralized, and which functions in mechanical and structural support.)
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calcium phosphate
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_77635
- Definition: A calcium salt composed of calcium and phosphate/diphosohate ions; present in milk and used for the mineralisation of calcified tissues.
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visual system
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002104
- Definition: The sensory system subserving the sense of vision.
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apposition eyes
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IDOMAL_0002229
- Definition: A compound eye with no separation between the crystalline-cone layer and the retinula, each rhabdom receiving light only from its own corneal lens.
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water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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-4 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of swamp ghost crab. View this species on GBIF

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