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Identify
Which species of crab?
By Adam Illingworth
Anybody got any ideas on which species this may be? It was cruisng around in about 1/2 a metre of water at Wellers Rock, Dunedin. Carapace was flat on the back and irregular triangle shaped
Comments:
Great Shot! It looks like the Pill-box Crab to me, Halicarcinus sp. It feeds on algae, seagrass and polychaetes.It will also pick up handfuls of sand and pass them to its mouthparts to sort through.
By Sally
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