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Cape Rock Crab

Guinusia chabrus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 123, February 53, March 62, April 54, May 67, June 37, July 31, August 40, September 79, October 69, November 53, December 82.
Australia750
New South Wales362
South Australia212
South Africa187
New Zealand183
Western Cape160
Victoria128
Taranaki Region43
Northland Region40
Auckland Region30

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassMalacostracans · Malacostraca
OrderDecapods · Decapoda
FamilyRafting Crabs · Plagusiidae
GenusGuinusia

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