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Blue Coral Crab
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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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Blue-lined Octopus
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The Blue-lined Octopus grows to about 15 cm in armspan, but is often much smaller. It is easily recognised by the iridescent blue lines on the body and linked blue rings on the arms and webs, however this is a warning colouration and only obvious when the animal is aggravated. This species is only found from southern Queensland to southern NSW.
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Blue Dragon Nudibranch
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The Blue Dragon Nudibranch resembles a frilled tiny lizard. It reaches only 10 mm in length and has 3 pairs of fan-like finger-like appendages called cerata. The species is found throughout the Pacific Ocean.
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Blue Triangle
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The Blue Triangle butterfly has triangular wings each with a central pale blue area bordered with dark brown. It is found in eastern coastal Qld and NSW.
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Sand Crab or Blue Swimmer Crab
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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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Plumbago Blue
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The Plumbago Blue butterfly is rarely found far from Plumbago plants. The flattened green caterpillars feed on the buds and flowers. It occurs in Eastern Australia from north of Cooktown, Qld, to Wollongong, NSW.
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Royal Barnacle
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The Royal Barnacle is common on rocks on exposed rocky headlands, lower tidal zone down to about 9 m depth. It occurs from southern Australia north to Queensland.
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Furry-clawed Crab
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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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Thick-tailed Gecko
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The Thick-tailed Gecko is uncommon in Brisbane's outskirts. It occurs in eastern and southern Australia.
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Banded Coral Shrimp
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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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Bee Killer Assassin Bug
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The Bee Killer Assassin Bug is a slow-moving predator that lurks among foliage and on flowers to ambush other insects as food. It is widespread in eastern Qld and NSW.
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Brown Tiger Prawn
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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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Bivalves
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Bivalves are molluscs that have a shell composed of two valves attached by a skin-like ligament and usually interlocking (hinge) teeth. The class includes many commercially significant species and numerous ecologically dominant groups. About 350 species have been recorded from Moreton Bay.
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Glossy Turban Carnivorous Snail
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The Glossy Turban Carnivorous Snail belongs to a family (Rhytididae) whose members prey on invertebrates such as earthworms and also on other snails. It ranges from the Barrington Tops in New South Wales to about Nambour in south-eastern Queensland.
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Variable Mitre
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The Variable Mitre is one of the commonest mitre snails (family Mitridae) from the Indo-Pacific region and often encountered both intertidally and subtidally, normally hiding under large rocks or dead coral slabs. It is found in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Soldier Crab
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The Soldier Crab burrows corkscrew-like into intertidal muddy sandflats. It occurs in eastern Australia.
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Lamington Spiny Crayfish
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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 crescent 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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Eastern King Prawn
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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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Ornate Spiny Lobster
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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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Crabs
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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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