Australoplax

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Australoplax
Australoplax tridentata, Furry-Clawed Crab, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia.jpg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Macrophthalmidae
Genus: Australoplax
Barnes, 1966
Species:
A. tridentata
Binomial name
Australoplax tridentata
Barnes, 1966

Australoplax is a genus of crabs which are spread along the north-eastern coastline of Australia. The only species in this genus is Australoplax tridentata, commonly known as the furry-clawed crab [1] or tuxedo shore crab, [2] found in Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory. [1]

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Description

Claws are blue. Adult males have large claws, adult females small claws. Adult males have a patch of fur at the base of the fingers. [1] The carapace breadth is up to 15 millimetres (0.59 in). [3] It lives in mangroves and muddy creek banks.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Furry-clawed crab". Queensland Museum. Government of Queensland. 2017. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  2. ↑ "Estuarine Shore Crabs of New South Wales" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  3. ↑ Barnes, R. S. K. (December 14, 1966). "The Status of the Crab Genus Euplax H. Milne Edwards, 1852; and a new genus Australoplax of the subfamily Macrophtalminae, Dana, 1851 (Brachyura, Ocypodidae)". The Australian Zoologist. XIII, Part 4. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.650.5175 .


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