Golden Ghost Crab

The golden ghost crab is a beach crab that stays close to its burrow and often uses its claws to scrape flies from the underside of leaves.

It lives over open, gravel and sandy beaches in the high-tide area, in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia.

Like all crabs, these crabs shed their shells as they grow. If they have lost legs or claws during their present growth cycle a new one will be present when they moult. Newly moulted crabs are very vulnerable because of their soft shells. They are reclusive and hide until the new shell hardens.