Photo credit: (c) themaskedlapwing, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 2 records
- February: 1 records
- March: 124 records
- April: 0 records
- May: 1 records
- June: 2 records
- July: 3 records
- August: 0 records
- September: 25 records
- October: 21 records
- November: 4 records
- December: 1 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 23–28 °C
Photos
(c) coenobita, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by coenobita · CC BY · iNaturalist 
(c) coenobita, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
Names and classification
Similar species
White semaphore crabIlyoplax delsmani
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 243 open-data records from 1965 to 1999.
- Species data updated November 3, 2026.
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