Purple and Cream Shore Crab

Pseudohelice subquadrata

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Varunidae

Pseudohelice subquadrata is a species of crab in the family Varunidae. It is found from the eastern Indian Ocean to the western Pacific Ocean, north to Japan, south to Eastern Australia, east to French Polynesia, west to Indonesia and Thailand. It lives near mangroves, burrowing in firm soils, firm muddy sand or loose stones.

Distribution

Purple and Cream Shore Crab — (c) coenobita, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by coenobita · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 5

Sources and credits

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Purple and Cream Shore Crab

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