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title: "Pacific Sand Crab"
description: "Emerita analoga — Outros animais. Emerita analoga, the Pacific sand crab, Pacific mole crab or coldwater mole crab, is a species of small, sand-burrowing decapod crustacean found living in the sand along the temperate western coasts of North and South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/pacific-sand-crab
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pacific Sand Crab

> Emerita analoga — Outros animais. Emerita analoga, the Pacific sand crab, Pacific mole crab or coldwater mole crab, is a species of small, sand-burrowing decapod crustacean found living in the sand along the temperate western coasts of North and South America.

- Scientific name: *Emerita analoga*
- Category: `other` (Outros animais)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 10969
- Wikidata: [Q3014312](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3014312)
- iNaturalist taxon: [47414](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47414)

## Names

- en: Pacific Sand Crab
- es: Cangrejo topo

## Countries with the most observations

US (10136), CL (320), PE (127), MX (88), CA (49), EC (6)

## Summary

Emerita analoga, the Pacific sand crab, Pacific mole crab or coldwater mole crab, is a species of small, sand-burrowing decapod crustacean found living in the sand along the temperate western coasts of North and South America. It is found on exposed sandy beaches in the swash region of the intertidal zone.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerita_analoga

## Photo

![Pacific Sand Crab](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pacific-sand-crab/medium.jpg)

Photo: Alex Heyman · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/64557690

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pacific-sand-crab?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).