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on the second to fifth pairs of pereiopods (walking legs). Other key identification features are that the second to fourth pairs of antero-lateral lobes are separated from each other by an inward pointing, wide and shallow depression, the postero-lateral margins of the carapace are bristly and the
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444:Xantho hydrophilus granulimanus
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352:which feeds chiefly on various
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384:Xantho hydrophilus
342:Xantho hydrophilus
320:closely resembles
301:Xantho hydrophilus
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215:Cancer hydrophilus
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1159:Categories
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522:References
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322:X. pilipes
310:pereiopods
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115:Suborder:
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761:Monodaeus
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306:chelipeds
287:Islands.
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