Marine Invertebrates
Crabs, Prawns, Barnacles & allies (Crustacea)
Crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura)
Sighting 3395053

Mictyris longicarpus

Soldier Crab at Eden, NSW

Mictyris longicarpus at Eden, NSW - 16 Apr 2018
Mictyris longicarpus at Eden, NSW - 16 Apr 2018
Mictyris longicarpus at Eden, NSW - 16 Apr 2018
Mictyris longicarpus at Eden, NSW - 16 Apr 2018
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Identification history

Mictyris longicarpus 20 Apr 2018 Jennyncmg
Mictyris platycheles 19 Apr 2018 offshore
Mictyris platycheles 18 Apr 2018 RossMannell

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3 comments

Jennyncmg wrote:
   21 Apr 2018
M longicarpus is the one that has the red knees
offshore wrote:
   21 Apr 2018
Not sure what happened there, must be gremlins in the system, I thought I had suggested and confirmed this as M. longicarpus not M platycheles
RossMannell wrote:
   21 Apr 2018
Red knees? That's going to make it easier to judge which.

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Sighting information

Additional information

  • less than 1m Depth of sighting

Species information

  • Mictyris longicarpus Scientific name
  • Soldier Crab Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • 8.86m to 24.5m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning

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  • Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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