Matuta planipes
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| Matuta planipes | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Matutidae |
| Genus: | Matuta |
| Species: | M. planipes
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| Matuta planipes Fabricius, 1798
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Matuta planipes is a species of moon crab in the family Matutidae.[1] It is a small colorful crab with flattened limbs.[2][3] Matuta planipes, in contrast to other species of crabs inhale pure oxygen-water through an area near their eye sockets. This species of crabs enjoy spending their daytime hidden under some sort of shade such as a sand bed and they are more active during the night.
This species of crab comes from the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific and Australia. Additionally, they have a widespread distribution that extends from the Red Sea to South Africa, Asia, and Australia.
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- ^ Saher, N. U., Amanat, Z., Gondal, M. A., & Qureshi, N. A. (2017, January 31). Distribution, Abundance and Population Ecology of Ashtoret lunaris (Forskel, 1775) and Matuta planipes Fabricius, 1798 from the Sonmiani Bay (Lagoon), Pakistan. Retrieved March 16, 2023, from http://dx.doi.org/10.17582/journal.pjz/2017.49.2.455.465
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