High tide
Several rock crab carapaces and claw legs of different sizes seen on both sides of Crinoline Point.
Port Hedland WA - Rock of Ages
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Xanthidae
Atergatis floridus
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Port Hedland WA - Rock of Ages
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Majidae
Paranaxia serpulifera
(Guérin, 1829)
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