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Peacock Mantis Shrimp, Odontodactylus scyllarus. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Peacock Mantis Shrimp
Summary
The Peacock Mantis Shrimp is an active hunter that seeks and eats other crustaceans, small fish and molluscs. It is found across northern Australia and widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.
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Ornate Spiny Lobster, *Panulirus ornatus*. © Queensland Museum, Neville Coleman Collection.
Ornate Spiny Lobster
Summary
The Ornate Spiny Lobster is one of the largest crayfish species, and can reach 500 mm in length. It is found on sandy, muddy or rocky substrates, and also on coral reefs. In shallow, sometimes slightly turbid coastal waters, from Albany, WA, across northern Australia to northern NSW.
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Bold-spotted Anemone Shrimp, *Thor amboinensis*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Bold-spotted Anemone Shrimp
Summary
The Bold-spotted Anemone Shrimp has, as its name suggests, bold patterning. It grows up to 20 mm in length. It occurs on reefs and may be found on Haddon’s Anemone in channels and pools at Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island. Northern Australia; Indo-Pacific region.
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Bruce's Hinge-beak Prawn, *Rhynchocinetes brucei*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Bruce's Hinge-beak Prawn
Summary
Bruce's Hinge-beak Prawn has distinctive patterning, and grows to 30 mm in length. It occurs on rocky reefs, in crevices and caves, and among rubble. Eastern Australia; also Philippines and Hong Kong.
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Freshwater Tiger Crab, *Austrothelphusa tigrina*. © Queensland Museum, John Short.
Freshwater Tiger Crab
Summary
The Freshwater Tiger Crab is a relatively large, riverine, freshwater crab, most easily recognised by the distinctive black stripes on the carapace of adults. It is so far only known from the headwaters of One Mile Creek, a tributary of the Alice River, Cape York.
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Granulated Barnacle, *Tetraclitella purpurascens*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Barnacles
Summary
Barnacles belong to a group of highly specialised crustaceans called the Cirripedia. Barnacles mostly feed on suspended particles in the water by opening the top plates of the shell and protruding their feathery legs (cirri) which trap microorganisms from the water flowing past. Seventy-three barnacle species have so far been found in south-eastern Queensland.
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Banana Prawn, *Penaeus merguiensis*. Courtesy of Grant's Guide to Fishes.
Banana Prawn
Summary
The Banana Prawn grows to 240 mm in length. It is widespread, found in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA, to northern NSW; also from the Red Sea into Asia.
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Mauve-eyed Hermit, *Dardanus crassimanus*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Mauve-eyed Hermit
Summary
The Mauve-eyed Hermit is instantly recognisable by its bright red body, legs with pale purple-banded joints and mauve eyestalks. It is found on a variety of substrates including rock, reef, and sandy mud seagrass flats, from tropical to warm-temperate Australia, south to NSW.
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Blue Coral Crab, *Trapezia cymodoce*. © Queensland Museum, Neville Coleman Collection.
Blue Coral Crab
Summary
The Blue Coral Crab has a blue-grey shell with a line of obvious small orange-red spots on the middle of its carapace. It is found in northern Australia; Indo-West Pacific.
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Sand Crab or Blue Swimmer Crab, *Portunus armatus*. Courtesy of Ian Banks.
Sand Crab or Blue Swimmer Crab
Summary
The Sand Crab or Blue Swimmer Crab is a commercially important trawled species. It is common in shallow, sandy-muddy inshore waters and seagrass beds, and occurs Australia-wide.
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Common Box Crab, *Calappa hepatica*. © Queensland Museum, Peter Davie.
Common Box Crab
Summary
The Common Box Crab is pale olive to olive-grey or olive-yellow, with flecking but not strong markings. It reaches about 50 mm in carapace width. It occurs in tropical and subtropical Australia; Indo-Pacific from Red Sea to Clipperton Is., east Pacific.
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Three-spotted Swimmer Crab, *Portunus sanguinolentus*. © Queensland Museum, Peter Davie.
Three-spotted Swimmer Crab
Summary
The Three-spotted Swimmer Crab is common, trawled in Moreton Bay and adjacent coastal waters. Often swims at surface at night.
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Moreton Bay Bug, *Thenus parindicus*. © Queensland Museum.
Moreton Bay Bug
Summary
The Moreton Bay Bug (also called Flathead Lobster or Shovel-nosed Lobster) is found over muddy-sand substrates in inshore waters to about 60 m depth. Northern Australia.
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Two-toned Fiddler Crab, *Gelasimus vomeris*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Two-toned Fiddler Crab
Summary
The Two-toned Fiddler Crab is common. It is found on unshaded sandy mud along lower tide levels of open bays and creeks, and isolated sand or mud banks. Occurs in northern Australia from Darwin, NT to Trial Bay, NSW.
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River Swimming Crab, *Varuna litterata*. Courtesy of Peter Ng.
River Swimming Crab
Summary
The River Swimming Crab is found under rocks in shallow water, from estuarine mangroves up-river to fresh water. Tropical Australia south to central NSW.
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Convex Reef Crab, *Carpilius convexius*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Crabs
Summary
Crabs are one of the largest groups of crustaceans, and the most diverse in both shape and size. Considered to have first appeared in the Jurassic period (144-213 million years ago), the world fauna is now known to consist of more than 7000 species, of which nearly 1200 are known from Australia.
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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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Red Reef Lobster, *Enoplometopus occidentalis*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Spiny Lobsters & Slipper Lobsters
Summary
Despite their name, the Australian spiny lobsters and slipper lobsters lack the large, powerful claws that are the hallmark of the marine 'clawed' lobsters from the northern hemisphere. The two most common families are the Palinuridae (spiny lobsters) and the Scyllaridae (slipper lobsters). Slipper lobsters such as the Moreton Bay Bug and the Smooth Fan Lobster are both commercially fished, as is the Ornate Spiny Lobster, although the latter is collected mostly by hand.
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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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Lamington Spiny Crayfish, *Euastacus sulcatus*. © Queensland Museum, Neville Coleman.
Common Freshwater & Terrestrial Crustaceans of Queensland
Summary
Queensland has a diverse range of freshwater and terrestrial environments, from outback deserts to tropical rainforests. Although crustaceans are primarily a marine group, there are many species of freshwater crayfish and crabs. Desert specialists, such as the remarkable Shield Shrimp, have eggs that can survive many years in the parched desert clay before hatching in their thousands when the rains finally come.
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