Con cua hoc tro – Vietnam colorful one big arm fiddler crab

con hoc tro - vietnam cu lao colorful one big arm crab
con hoc tro - vietnam cu lao colorful one big arm crab

I don’t know for sure what’s the exact name of this crab – But I remember finding it during the summer time, it came out of the creek bank mud, a lot of them too crawling around, very colorful, beautiful – It was said that the male is bigger than the female, it has one big arm and the other arm is very small. It eats mud and it’s not year round crab, it cannot be eaten, and very hard to catch, I remember catching one but it died pretty quick or run away. This crab I call it “con hoc tro” translate in English “student crab” lol no idea. More pictures below.

fiddler crab
fiddler crab
cua hoc tro vietnam tien giang
cua hoc tro vietnam tien giang
vietnam fiddler crab hoc tro go cong tay
vietnam fiddler crab hoc tro go cong tay
con cong con ram cua hoc tro que huong cu lao
con cong con ram cua hoc tro que huong cu lao
male fiddler crap crab
male fiddler crap crab
ruong lua me em trong - rice planting time march 2012 vietnam
ruong lua me em trong - rice planting time march 2012 vietnam