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Title: Crab Releasing Babies, Philippines
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A female box crab (Calappa sp.) emerges from the sand and shakes her body to release her tiny young. Dauin, Dauin Marine Protected Area, Dumaguete, Negros, Philippines. Bohol Sea, tropical west Pacific Ocean.
- Arthropods: Arthropoda
- behaviour
- box crab: Calappa sp.
- Box Crabs: Calappidae
- Crustaceans: Crustacea
- Dauin
- Dauin Marine Protected Area
- Decapods: Decapoda
- Dumaguete
- Invertebrates
- Malacostraceans: Malacostracea
- Marine Life
- Negros Island
- Negros Oriental
- Philippines
- reproduction
- Sulu Sea
- True Crabs: Brachyura
- Visayas
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