Background Information Uca minax is a fiddler crab species commonly found along the United States' East Coast. All fiddler male fiddler crabs, regardless of the species, have a major claw, a claw that is significantly bigger than their other claw. This can be on either side, allowing a male fiddler crab to be characterized by either being left- or right-clawed. The minax species have horizontal indentations behind their compounded eyes, meaning their eyes are atop a stalk. Continuing, this species of fiddler crabs is brown and gray with red joints that connect the claws to the carapace and has eight walking legs that vary between being a light brown or dark green (Bethany Fisher). Fiddler crabs live in coastal wetlands in the intertidal regions of the coast, meaning seawater from the ocean periodically floods their habitat based on the high and low tides. Coastal wetlands are divided into the following three subsections: the high marsh, midshore, and low marsh. The ...
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