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Free diver Jules Casey witnessed a darkly captivating scene on the sea floor of Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, on June 5: two spider crabs feasting on the remains of another crab.Casey ...
Strigopagurus strigimanus Rasping hermit crab (White, 1847) (Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, to Newcastle, New South Wales, and around Tasmania.) [1] Family Paguridae – Pagurid hermit crabs Lophopagurus nanus Henderson's hermit crab (Henderson, 1888) (Victoria to southern Queensland and around Tasmania.) [ 1 ]
Smaller, native crabs have limited breeding seasons which restrict their ability to compete with the invasive P. tuberculata. [11] In eutrophic waters such as Tokyo Bay , P. tuberculata is abundant from the intertidal zone up to 80 meters of depth, with inner-bay populations being replenished each fall with larvae from crabs in the outer-bay ...
Jelly blubber in Port Phillip Bay, Australia Scientific classification ... more developed stages of fish larvae and crab megalopae, ... spider crabs, shrimp ...
Port Phillip (Kulin: Narm-Narm [1]) or Port Phillip Bay is a horsehead-shaped enclosed bay on the central coast of southern Victoria, Australia.The bay opens into the Bass Strait via a short, narrow channel known as The Rip, and is completely surrounded by localities of Victoria's two largest cities — metropolitan Greater Melbourne in the bay's main eastern portion north of the Mornington ...
Libinia emarginata is roughly triangular in outline and very heavily calcified, with a carapace about 4 in (100 mm) long and a leg span of 12 inches (300 mm). [4] The whole crab is khaki, and the carapace is covered in spines and tubercles, [5] and, as with other decorator crabs, often clothes itself in debris and small invertebrates.
The Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park is a marine protected area located in the vicinity of the bay of Port Phillip, between the Bellarine and Mornington Peninsulas, in Victoria, Australia. The 3,580-hectare (8,800-acre) marine national park comprises six separate sites located approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) south-west of Melbourne ...
The swamp was an impediment to the settlers and there was much discussion on how to reclaim the land, the first contracts for drainage works commenced in 1873. Attempts to reclaim the lower swamplands were ineffective. In 1876 it was decided to cut a 10-metre (33 ft) wide channel to Port Phillip Bay through widening and deepening Carrum Creek.