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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 ...
Rye Pier is a popular recreational scuba diving shore dive site inside Port Phillip. The pier can house seahorses, stingrays, spider crabs, squid, scallops and octopuses and Australian fur seals. The wreck of the wooden sailing ketch Eivion lies 115 metres to the east of Rye Pier.
Jelly blubber in Port Phillip Bay, Australia Scientific classification ... more developed stages of fish larvae and crab megalopae, ... spider crabs, shrimp ...
Toothed decorator crab, Acanthonyx dentatus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 recorded as syn. Dehaanius dentatus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1834) (Saldanha Bay to Richards Bay) [3] [119] [4] Agulhas spider crab, Maja capensis (Ortmann, 1894) (False Bay to Port Elizabeth) [114] syn. Mamaia capensis (not listed on WoRMS, possibly Maja cornuta (Linnaeus, [4] 1758 ...
Majidae is a family of crabs, comprising around 200 marine species inside 52 genera, with a carapace that is longer than it is broad, and which forms a point at the front. The legs can be very long in some species, leading to the name "spider crab".
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 ...