Tunnelling mud crab
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Varunidae |
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| Genus: | Austrohelice K. Sakai, Türkay & Yang, 2006 [1] |
| Species: | A. crassa
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| Binomial name | |
| Austrohelice crassa (Dana, 1851)
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The tunnelling mud crab, Austrohelice crassa, is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Grapsidae, endemic to the sea coasts of New Zealand. Their carapace width is up to 40 mm.[2]
References[]
- ^ a b c Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
- ^ Hsi-Te Shih & Hiroshi Suzuki (2008). "Taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography of the endemic mudflat crab Helice/Chasmagnathus complex (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) from East Asia" (PDF). Zoological Studies. 47 (1): 114–125.
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- Monotypic arthropod genera
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- Crustaceans described in 1851
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