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Tubuca polita. Tubuca polita, commonly known as the polished fiddler crab. [1] or pink-clawed fiddler crab [2] is a species of fiddler crab that is found in the northern part of Australia including the Torres Strait Islands [3] Tubuca polita was formerly a member of the genus Uca, but in 2016 it was placed in the genus Tubuca, a former subgenus ...
Hoplophrys oatesii is a very colorful crab that grows from 1.5 to 2 cm (0.59 to 0.79 in). It lives on various species of soft coral in the genus Dendronephthya. It camouflages itself by mimicking the colours of the polyps among which it hides. It adds further camouflage by attaching polyps to its carapace. Colours vary depending on the colour ...
Thomisus onustus. Thomisus onustus is a crab spider belonging to the genus Thomisus. These spiders are found across Europe, North Africa, and parts of the Middle East and Asia. T. onustus reside in flowers in lowland vegetation. Females are distinguished by their larger size and ability to change color between white, yellow, and pink as a means ...
Binomial name. Zebrida adamsii. White, 1847 [1] Synonyms [1] Acanthonyx zebrida Wood, 1867. Zebrida paucidentata Flipse, 1930. Zebrida adamsii is a distinctively striped species of crab that lives in association with a sea urchin in the Indo-Pacific region. It is cryptically coloured with vertical stripes and has special adaptations to its legs ...
Cancer vanbenedenii Herklots, 1852. Hepatus epheliticus, known by various names, including the calico crab (not to be confused with Ovalipes ocellatus) and Dolly Varden crab, is a species of crab. It lives in shallow water in the western Atlantic Ocean from the Chesapeake Bay to the Dominican Republic. It has a 3-inch (76 mm)–wide carapace ...
Dana, 1852. Coenobita brevimanus is a species of terrestrial hermit crab belonging to the family Coenobitidae, which is composed of coastal living terrestrial hermit crabs. From there it belongs to the genus Coenobita, one of two genera split from the family, which contains sixteen species. The Latin origins of the species name, brevimanus ...
Tubuca coarctata. Tubuca coarctata is a species of fiddler crab found in the western Pacific ocean, including Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia (in Queensland and the Northern Territory). [1][2][3] The common name of these crabs is either the compressed fiddler crab, [4] or the orange-clawed fiddler crab, [5 ...
H. Milne Edwards, (1837) Tiomanium indicum, commonly known as the Tioman crab or the white clawed mangrove crab, is a crab in the family Sesarmidae. It inhabits the Western and central Indo-Pacific ocean, including Singapore, Malaysia, Australia (Queensland), the Philippines and New Guinea. Tioman crabs are supralittoral (live above the high ...