Sembawang gallery of intertidal life in singapore

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Porcelain crab Family Porcellanidae Under the rocks live lots of little flat procelain crabs. They have enormous flattened pincers, which are easily dropped if they are stressed. Hence the common name for these "highly breakable" crabs.

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