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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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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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Leaden Sand Snail, Conuber sordidus. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Leaden Sand Snail
Summary
The Leaden Sand Snail is one of the largest, most common sand snails found on sand-and mud-flats along the eastern and southern coasts of Australia. It produces large crescent-shaped jelly-like egg masses.
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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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Coral Swimmer Crab, *Charybdis feriata*. © Queensland Museum, Peter Davie.
Coral Swimmer Crab
Summary
The Coral Swimmer Crab reaches up to 160 mm in carapace width. It occurs in Australia, except for the southern coast; Indo-West Pacific from East Africa to Japan.
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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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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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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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Banded Coral Shrimp, *Stenopus hispidus*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Banded Coral Shrimp
Summary
The Banded Coral Shrimp has a reddish-brown banded body and claws, and can reach 90 mm in length. It is found in northern Australia from North West Cape, WA, to southern NSW; Indo-Pacific to West Atlantic.
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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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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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Gaping Venus Clam, Marcia hiantina. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Gaping Venus Clam
Summary
The Gaping Venus Clam is one of the commoner intertidal to shallow subtidal bivalves in southern Queensland. They live buried in sand within a few centimetres of the surface, with only the tips of their siphons projecting.They are found in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Banded Coral Shrimp, *Stenopus hispidus*. © Queensland Museum, Marissa McNamara.
Cleaner Shrimps & allies
Summary
This interesting group of small benthic decapod crustaceans belongs to the Infraorder Stenopodidea. It includes only six species in two families in Australian waters, with the Banded Coral Shrimp always the most common and conspicuous.
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Dune Glider, *Tramea eurybia*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Dune Glider
Summary
The Dune Glider is a moderately large dragonfly that is largely confined to dune lakes on the coast and sand islands. Adult males are red and have a dark-red patch at the base of each hindwing.
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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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Red-mouthed Banded Whelk, Engina zonalis. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Red-mouthed Banded Whelk
Summary
The Red-mouthed Banded Whelk is a small species of predatory snail that may be found under large rocks and dead coral slabs from intertidal and shallow subtidal habitats to 15 m depth. It occurs in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Smooth Tusk shell, Laevidentalium lubricatum. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Smooth Tusk Shell
Summary
The Smooth Tusk Shell is one of the larger species of scaphopod. Like other tusk shells, it lives embedded in sand and the living animal is rarely seen. It is found Australia-wide.
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Pale Banded Snail, *Sphaerospira mattea*. © Queensland Museum.
Pale Banded Snail
Summary
The Pale Banded Snail has, as the common name suggests, a pale, yellowish shell with many strong, dark brown spiral bands. It also has a dark brown patch behind the outer lip and on the umbilical region on the base of the shell. It ranges from about the Tweed river region in northern New South Wales northwards to the Broadsound Range, north-west of Rockhampton, and inland to the Carnarvon area, Queensland.
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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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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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