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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Shiny Bait Crab, *Davusia glabra*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Shiny Bait Crab
Summary
The Shiny Bait Crab is found in crevices and pools on exposed rocky shores in eastern Qld. It is common at Point Lookout, on North Stradbroke Island.
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Stalk-eyed Swimmer Crab, *Podophthalmus vigil*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Stalk-eyed Swimmer Crab
Summary
The Stalk-eyed Swimmer Crab occurs over sandy-mud and weed substrates, occasionally taken in pots and bait nets, shallow subtidal zone to 20 m depth. It is found in Northern Australia from Exmouth Gulf, WA, to Moreton Bay.
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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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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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