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is commonly encountered in sandy and muddy shores, especially near seagrass beds from the intertidal zone to a depth of 50m. They are usually nocturnal and spend the day buried in the substrate just below the surface, creating breathing channels to the surface of the sand. They hunt small shellfish,
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in south eastern Turkey suggesting that the species had become established in the area. The most likely route of colonisation was from the Red Sea through the Suez Canal and then along the northward current that runs along the Israel-Lebanon-Syria coast towards
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have paddle-shaped tips which facilitate a skimming locomotion along the substrate and rapid burrowing into sand. In some specimens the paddles have large, dark blotches and sometimes smaller dark spots on the legs. They grow to 3–8 cm in width.
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which has a finely grained texture, as well as six tubercles in the middle of the dorsal surface. It also has a linear tubercle along the middle of the posterior of the carapace. The front has straight lobes, with a lateral and slightly emarginated
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which is located in the centre and the front lateral margin has five small tubercles followed by three larger deltoid tubercles. The lateral spine is equal in length to a fifth of the carapace width.
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by a trawler in 1987. No specimens were recorded in subsequent years and it was assumed that any population had died out. Then, in 2015, four female specimens were caught by a trawler in
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have a five-lobed ridge in the middle of the palm, the second and fourth lobes of which are pointed with the second lobe being the largest. There is a ridge on the outer surface of the
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of males which is finely grained in texture; this is absent in females. The carapace is beige or yellow in background colour and is covered in red dots. The
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571:"Moon Crab"
272:Description
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108:Pleocyemata
866:Categories
645:"Astoreth"
481:K. Sakai.
433:References
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369:sham death
365:A. lunaris
340:A. lunaris
298:pereiopods
104:Suborder:
78:Arthropoda
692:Q13399811
419:Ashtoreth
344:Haifa Bay
290:Chelipeds
262:Matutidae
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250:box crab
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355:Biology
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