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Horn-eyed Ghost Crab, *Ocypode ceratophthalmus*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Horn-eyed Ghost Crab
Summary
The Horn-eyed Ghost Crab is common on the open beach below frontal dunes in the intertidal zone. Most active at night. It is found in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA, to northern NSW.
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Giant 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 creek and riverbanks in eastern Australia from Cape York to Moreton Bay.
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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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Common Yabbie, *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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Lamington Spiny Crayfish, *Euastacus sulcatus*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Lamington Spiny Crayfish
Summary
The Lamington Spiny Crayfish is restricted to streams bordered by rainforest, and sometimes wet eucalypt forest, at more than 300 m altitude. Inhabits mountains in a cresent from Mount Tamborine to Lamington Plateau, west along Macpherson Range, and north via Cunningham's Gap into the Mistake Mountains, Queensland.
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Orange-fingered Yabby, *Cherax depressus*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Orange-fingered Yabby
Summary
The Orange-fingered Yabby is typically semi-aquatic in gullies, temporary pools and shallow creeks with limited flow. Also common in farm dams.
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Redclaw, *Cherax quadricarinatus*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Redclaw
Summary
Redclaw crayfish make short burrows around the waterline, or underneath submerged rocks and fallen trees. Introduced to south-east Queensland through aquaculture, farm dams, and aquarium interests, and now feral in Lake Samsonvale, Wivenhoe Dam, and freshwater sections of Bremer and Brisbane Rivers.
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Shield Shrimp, *Triops australiensis*. © Queensland Museum.
Shield Shrimp
Summary
Shield Shrimp are the most strange-looking and distinctive of all desert crustaceans, and occur over much of inland Australia. Populations of these peculiar creatures explode following rain, and they can be found teeming in temporary pools and water-filled clay pans.
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Swamp Crayfish, *Tenuibranchiurus glypticus*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Swamp Crayfish
Summary
The Swamp Crayfish is one of the world's smallest crayfish, being fully grown at 25 mm. Originally recorded from Bulimba Creek, Mt Gravatt, but rarely found in the Brisbane city area since 1951.
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Purple Swift-footed Shore Crab, *Leptograpsus variegatus*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Purple Swift-footed Shore Crab
Summary
The Purple Swift-footed Shore Crab is found on rocky coasts exposed to strong surf. It shelters in crevices and under rocks from mid to high tide mark. Occurs from southern to subtropical Australia.
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Red and White-spotted Reef Crab, *Lophozozymus erinnyes*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Red and White-spotted Reef Crab
Summary
The Red and White-spotted Reef Crab hides in cavities in dead coral or mussel clumps, intertidal zone down to about 30 m depth. Known only from northern Australia, south to Moreton Bay.
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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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Semaphore Crab, *Heloecius cordiformis*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Semaphore Crab
Summary
The Semaphore Crab is similar in shape to fiddler crabs, but differs by having equal sized, purple claws. It is found in eastern Australia, from Tasmania to central Qld.
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Furry-clawed Crab, *Australoplax tridentata*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Furry-clawed Crab
Summary
Furry-clawed Crab males have blue claws with a large round patch of fur at the base of their 'fingers' (females have very small claws without furry patches). Abundant, in mangroves and on muddy creek banks. Indigenous, Sydney, NSW, north to Darwin, NT.
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Orange-spot Smashing Mantis Shrimp, Gonodactylaceus graphurus. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Orange-spot Smashing Mantis Shrimp
Summary
The Orange-spot Smashing Mantis Shrimp lives in crevices and holes in dead and living coral clumps on reefs and in mussel clumps in shallow water. It is found in northern Australia.
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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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Eastern King Prawn, *Penaeus plebejus*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Eastern King Prawn
Summary
The Eastern King Prawn has a cream to yellow body. Females grow up to 300 mm in length, males up to 190 mm. They are found in eastern Australia, from south-east Qld to Lakes Entrance, Vic.
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Yabby, *Trypaea australiensis*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Yabby or Ghost Nipper
Summary
Yabbies burrow in large numbers on sheltered intertidal and shallow, subtidal muddy sandflats. They are often collected by yabby pump, and commonly used as bait for fishing. Occur in eastern Australia.
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Brown Tiger Prawn, *Penaeus esculentus*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Brown Tiger Prawn
Summary
The Brown Tiger Prawn is a large, banded prawn growing to 235 mm in length. It occurs on mud or sandy mud, and is found in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA, to central NSW.
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