Tags: Crustacean.

Cardisoma carnifex is a species of terrestrial crab found in coastal regions from the east coast of Africa and the Red Sea across the Indo-Pacific to the Line Islands and the Tuamotu Archipelago. The range includes parts of northern Australia and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

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binomial authority
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst
class
Malacostraca
family
Gecarcinidae
genus
Cardisoma
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Crab
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Cancer carnifex (Herbst 1794), *Cardisoma obesum (Dana 1851), *Cardisoma urvillei (H. Milne-Edwards 1853)

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