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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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Pygmy Wisp, *Agriocnemis pygmaea*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Pygmy Wisp
Summary
The Pygmy Wisp is a tiny damselfly that inhabits ponds, swamps and fringes of dams and lakes with plentiful aquatic vegetation. Mature males are dark brown or black with greenish markings and a reddish tip to the abdomen. Young females are mostly red and become black and green as they age.
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Red-rumped Wisp, *Agriocnemis rubricauda*, female. © Chris Burwell.
Red-rumped Wisp
Summary
The Red-rumped Wisp is a tiny damselfly that inhabits a variety of standing water habitats, including small, well-vegetated ponds, dams and swamps. It is very similar to the Pgymy Wisp but males have more of the tip of the abdomen reddish. However, only female Red-rumped Wisps are known from south-east Queensland.
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Rose Barnacles, Tesseropora rosea. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Rose Barnacle
Summary
Rose Barnacles occur on rocks at the seaward edge of rocky shores, and are able to tolerate strong wave activity. They are found in eastern Australia and southern Western Australia.
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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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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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Honeycomb Coral Crab, *Trapezia septata*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Honeycomb Coral Crab
Summary
The Honeycomb Coral Crab features honeycomb patterning over its shell and claws. It lives commensally with a variety of branching corals, and is found in northern Australia. Also found in the eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific and north to Japan.
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Red Mud Lobster, *Neaxius glyptocercus*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Red Mud Lobster
Summary
The Red Mud Lobster is a stout, lobster-like crustacean with strong claws. It is very common in Moreton Bay, and is found in northern and eastern Australia.
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Pyramid periwinkle, Nodilittorina pyramidalis. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Pyramid Periwinkle
Summary
The Pyramid Periwinkle is one of several periwinkle species that commonly live on our rocky shores. It grows to about 20 mm in length, is very common in the high intertidal zone, and ranges from southern Queensland around southern Australia to Fremantle, WA.
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Hairy Mussel, Trichomya hirsuta. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Hairy Mussel
Summary
The Hairy Mussel occurs abundantly along the eastern and southern coasts of Australia as far south as Tasmania, particularly in estuarine localities. Shells of living animals are covered in short bristles. They occur in eastern and southern Australia.
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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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Pacific Clown Anemone Shrimp, *Ancylocaris brevicarpalis*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Pacific Clown Anemone Shrimp
Summary
The Pacific Clown Anemone Shrimp is common on coral and rocky reefs in the subtidal zone. Occurs singly or in pairs, on Haddon’s Anemone, and also on other anemones and sea cucumbers. Northern Australia.
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Soldier Crab, *Mictyris longicarpus*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Soldier Crab
Summary
The Soldier Crab burrows corkscrew-like into intertidal muddy sandflats. It occurs in eastern Australia.
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Lamarck's Porcelain Crab, *Petrolisthes lamarckii*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Lamarcks Porcelain Crab
Summary
Lamarcks Porcelain Crab is found under rocks and rubble on reefs; intertidal and shallow subtidal zones in eastern Australia.
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Mud Ark, Anadara trapezia. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Mud Ark
Summary
The Mud Ark is one of the most abundant bivalve molluscs on the mud- and sand-flats of eastern and southern Australia. They are common components of aboriginal shell middens.
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Goose Barnacle, *Lepas anserifera*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Goose Barnacle
Summary
The Goose Barnacle is found in the open sea, where it attaches to floating logs, planks and other flotsam. It is common in tropical Australia.
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Elegant Squat Lobster, *Allogalathea elegans*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Elegant Squat Lobster
Summary
The Elegant Squat Lobster has longitudinal stripes, and grows up to 15 mm in length. It is found in Northern Australia; Indo-West Pacific, east Africa to Fiji.
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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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Imperial Barnacle, Austrobalanus imperator. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Imperial Barnacle
Summary
The Imperial Barnacle is found towards low water level on oceanic rocky shores, but not in areas subject to severe wave action. It occurs in eastern 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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