Sand Bubbler Crabs
A crabs that makes bubbles out sand.
Habitat
Daily Change
Interrupted feeding-When the tide come in the Bubbler Crab has to bury itself under the sand until the tide goes back down.
Wave action and tides-The only time the Bubbler Crab has to worry about waves and tide is when tide come in. The Bubbler Crab knows when its high and low tide.
Oxygen availability and build-up of CO2-When the tide comes in the Bubbler Crab bury itself down under the sand and has an air bubble where it can breathe.
Limited space-The Bubbler Crab has limited space when it make it sand air and it makes too much that it will have to make a path just so they can remember when its hole was at.
Characteristics
movement-The Bubbler Crab is just any other crab, it move by crawling.
Diet-The Crab feeds on the organic matter in sand, plankton left behind by the tide, meiofauna, and detritus.
Predators- sea birds, the tide.
Citation
N.p., n. d. 10 Mar 2014. <http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/species-bank/sbank-treatment.pl?id=77377>.