Tags: Crustacean.

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.

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binomial authority
James Dwight Dana
class
Malacostraca
family
Varunidae
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Crab, Pleocyemata
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Helice crassa (Dana 1851), *Helice lucasi (H. Milne-Edwards 1853)

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