Biology:Tunnelling mud crab
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Short description: Species of crab
| Tunnelling mud crab | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Varunidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyclograpsinae |
| Genus: | Austrohelice K. Sakai, Türkay & Yang, 2006 [1] |
| Species: | A. crassa
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| Binomial name | |
| Austrohelice crassa (Dana, 1851)
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The tunnelling mud crab, Austrohelice crassa, is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Grapsidae, endemic to the sea coasts of New Zealand. Their carapace width is up to 40 mm.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot; Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf.
- ↑ Hsi-Te Shih; Hiroshi Suzuki (2008). "Taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography of the endemic mudflat crab Helice/Chasmagnathus complex (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) from East Asia". Zoological Studies 47 (1): 114–125. http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/47.1/114.pdf.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q6499490 entry
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