Image from Cabrillo Aquarium, San Pedro, CA, March 17, 2006

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We saw sandflat elbow crabs (Heterocrypta occidentalis) in our otter trawl (see here and here). This crab is found on sandy bottoms from intertidal to 70 feet and ranges from central California to Baja California (source here).

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