Pitho crab releasing eggs?

[JoJosReef]

Caught the pitho crab fully out of the sand tonight, which itself is a bit weird, then noticed she/he was up to something. Does anyone know if it's a she and if it's releasing eggs? Hard to see in the video, but there were occasional white balls floating out that looked like ROE. Sorry about the music background--the kids were messing with the Google speaker.

New video by Joseph Campo

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[ISpeakForTheSeas]

I'm going to say probably, yes - at least based off of how crabs of other species release their eggs: