Land crab (species: Cardisoma carnifex) in Lizard Island area: all known taxa (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Cardisoma carnifex
Land crab


©Anne Hoggett: Cardisoma carnifex at Lizard Island with eggs

©Anne Hoggett: A juvenile Cardisoma carnifex, carapace width 5.5 cm, found ~ 200 metres from beach at LIRS. It may have been dropped by a bird.

©Anne Hoggett: A juvenile Cardisoma carnifex, carapace width 5.5 cm, found ~ 200 metres from beach at LIRS. It may have been dropped by a bird.

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Gecarcinidae
Genus Cardisoma
Species Cardisoma carnifex

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Lizard Island area: all known taxa

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References

  • Diele, K. (1993). Reproduktionsbiologische und ökologische Freilandstudien and der Landkrabbe Cardisoma carnifex (Dekapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae), Diploma thesis, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany. LIRS catalog number 424.
  • Quinn, B.L. Kojis, K. Diele and U. Meischner, N.J. (1991). Reproductive behaviour of Cardisoma carnifex (Herbst, 1794) (Brachyura: Gecarcinidae) at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 31: 399, 31: 399. LIRS catalog number 538.