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Common Crow, Euploea corinna, pinned adult male specimen. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Garden Butterflies
Summary
Butterflies are common visitors to backyards and a wide variety of species drop in to feed on nectar from blossoms. Some are regular garden-dwellers, their caterpillars feeding on widely-grown garden plants or street trees. A few species are even pests of citrus, palms and vegetables.
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Mud Crab, *Scylla serrata*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Mud Crab
Summary
The Mud Crab is a well-known, large, olive-green swimming crab, with sharply serrated edges around front half of carapace. Found north from about Sydney, NSW.
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Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab, *Tubuca coarctata*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab
Summary
The Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab is common on muddy upper shoulders of creeks and riverbanks in eastern Australia from Cape York to Moreton Bay.
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Forest Hopper, *Talitroides topitotum*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Forest Hopper, Lawn Hopper or Carpet Prawn
Summary
The Forest Hopper, Lawn Hopper or Carpet Prawn is a small amphipod with a narrow elongated body that is flattened from side-to-side. Widespread in warm temperate climates across the Indo-Pacific region; common in eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland.
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Red Mud Lobster, *Neaxius glyptocercus*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Mud & Coral 'Lobsters'
Summary
These are typically clawed, burrow-dwelling animals that seem to be half-shrimp and half-lobster. They belong to the Infraorders Axiidea and Gebiidea, which include 12 families with over 100 species in Australian waters. These crustaceans occur in a wide variety of habitats, from the intertidal zone to the deep sea (2,500 metres or more).
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Smooth-handed Ghost Crab, *Ocypode cordimana*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Smooth-handed Ghost Crab
Summary
The Smooth-handed Ghost Crab can be found on top of frontal dunes to about 200 m inland. It is often seen scurrying about beach campsites. It occurs in northern Australia from Kimberley, WA, to northern NSW.
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Shawl Crab, *Atergatis floridus*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Shawl Crab
Summary
Shawl Crabs inhabit various habitats, under rocks on exposed and sheltered shores, in crevices in dead coral on muddy sandflats from northern Australia south to NSW.
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Inland Freshwater Crab, *Austrothelphusa transversa*. © Queensland Museum.
Inland Freshwater Crab
Summary
The Inland Freshwater Crab is common throughout the semi-desert central and northern parts of Australia extending south into the upper reaches of the Darling River System.
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Sand Bubbler, *Scopimera inflata*.© Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Sand Bubbler
Summary
The Sand Bubbler is unlike any other crab, using broad oval patches (tympana) on its legs to absorb oxygen from the air. It occurs on wave-exposed and estuarine sandy beaches in eastern Australia.
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Smooth Fan Lobster, *Ibacus brucei*. Courtesy of G. Millen, Australian Museum.
Smooth Fan Lobster
Summary
The Smooth Fan Lobster is found on soft stony substrates, 90–180 m depth, in Southern Qld, and northern NSW.
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Speckled Sand Crab, *Ashtoret lunaris*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Speckled Sand Crab
Summary
The Speckled Sand Crab occurs on sandy substrates, from low tide mark to about 10 m depth. It is sometimes caught in bait nets. It is found in northern Australia.
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Inland Yabby, *Cherax destructor*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Inland Yabby
Summary
The Inland Yabby constructs deep burrows, typically along the water line of rivers and creeks. In Queensland, originally restricted to streams flowing westward from the Great Dividing Range and the Dawson River. Now introduced to Brisbane River catchment and spreading quickly.
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Sand Yabby, *Cherax robustus*. Courtesy of Rob McCormack.
Sand Yabby
Summary
The Sand Yabby is semi-aquatic and burrows around the perimeter of sand lakes or along small creeks. It is restricted to coastal south-eastern Queensland as far north as Fraser Island.
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Giant Sentinel Crab, *Venitus latreillei*. Courtesy of Andrew Elliot.
Giant Sentinel Crab
Summary
The Giant Sentinel Crab has a large carapace with a strongly granular surface. It burrows on open mudflats in very soft mud from northern Australia south to Moreton Bay.
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Hairy Swimmer Crab, *Charybdis natator*. Courtesy of Ian Banks.
Hairy Swimmer Crab
Summary
The Hairy Swimmer Crab is a very stout, solidly built swimming crab that can grow to 145 mm in carapace width. It occurs in northern Australia from Exmouth Gulf, WA, to Sydney.
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Tail-light Squid Shell, Spirula spirula. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Ram’s Horn Squid or Tail-light Squid
Summary
The Ram’s Horn Squid is a rarely seen deep-water species that has a light emitting organ at the tail-end of its body. The internal spirally-coiled shell, is composed of numerous gas-filled chambers that give the squid buoyancy. Tail-light Squids are cosmopolitan, occurring in all oceans.
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Oak Chiton, Onithochiton quercinus. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Oak Chiton
Summary
The Oak Chiton is easily recognised by its mottled grey, green, and black leathery girdle. It lives exposed on rocks in the intertidal and shallow subtidal zones. It is found from Central Queensland southwards to southern WA.
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Sand-dusted Cone, Conus arenatus. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Gastropods
Summary
Gastropods form the largest class of molluscs and include many well-known groups such as cowries, cone snails, tritons, periwinkles and whelks. To date approximately 950 species of gastropods have been recorded from the Bay.
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Giant Clam, Tridacna maxima. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Bivalves
Summary
Bivalves are molluscs that have a shell composed of two valves attached by a skin-like ligament and usually interlocking (hinge) teeth. The class includes many commercially significant species and numerous ecologically dominant groups. About 350 species have been recorded from Moreton Bay.
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Cleft-fronted Bait Crab, *Guinusia dentipes*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Cleft-fronted Bait Crab
Summary
The Cleft-fronted Bait Crab has short hairs on its body and legs, and can reach 70 mm in carapace width. It occurs in eastern Qld; also subtropical and tropical western and eastern Pacific (north to Japan and south-east to Easter Island).
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