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Austrothelphusa transversa (von Martens, 1868), also known as the inland crab, freshwater crab, or tropical freshwater crab [3] is a species of freshwater crab endemic to Australia. [1] A. transversa is the most widely-dispersed species of its genus, as it has adaptations giving it a high tolerance to drought and arid conditions. [4]
Davusia glabra, commonly called the shiny bait crab, [1] Sowrie crab [2] or Sourie crab is the sole species of crab in the genus Davusia. [3] It lives around the low tide area on rocky ocean shores on the eastern coast of Australia (southern Queensland to Victoria), in crevices and rock pools and on rock platforms. [1]
Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of Indo-Pacific swamp crab (Scylla serrata) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [1]Scylla serrata (often called mud crab or mangrove crab, although both terms are highly ambiguous, and black crab) is an ecologically important species of crab found in the estuaries and mangroves of Africa, Australia, and Asia.
The Australian land hermit crab (Coenobita variabilis) is a terrestrial hermit crab species, native to Australia. It is a nocturnal, omnivorous crustacean. It is a nocturnal, omnivorous crustacean. They are gregarious and thrive in tropical areas near water.
Paragrapsus laevis is a species of crab found in south eastern Australia, from southern Queensland to around the South Australian border, including Tasmania. [1] It is commonly known as the mottled shore crab. [2] Carapace is up to around 35 [3] to 40mm across, [2] with two notches in each side behind the eye, and has two well defined lobes ...
Helopgrapsus haswellianus, or Haswell’s shore crab, is the sole species of crab in the genus Helograpsus. It lives in river mouths and bays on the eastern coast of Australia (South Australia to Queensland, and Tasmania). [2] The carapace is strongly convex with one distinct notch behind the eye. Adult males have larger claws than adult females.
Crab Island, called Moent Island in the native language, is a now uninhabited island west of Muttee Heads and the coastal community of Seisia which is adjacent to Bamaga at the tip of Cape York Peninsula within the Endeavour Strait in the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland, Australia. [1] It is around 280 hectares (690 acres). [2]
Male lemon-yellow clawed fiddler crab (Austruca perplexa), wavingAustruca perplexa is a species of fiddler crab.It is found from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan to India, throughout the Malay Archipelago, along eastern Australian coasts from Queensland to New South Wales, and in various Pacific islands, including Fiji, Tonga and Vanuatu.