A crab named for mangrove forests is leaving them behind. New research from William Mary's Batten School VIMS shows that the Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab (Leptuca thayeri) is settling into temperate salt marshes along the southeastern U.S. coast. Published in the Journal of Crustacean Biology, t he study documents the species as far north as Beaufort, South Carolina, almost 200 miles north of its traditional range in Florida. ...read more read less