Field Notes - more than 10. washed up on the side of the creek.
One of many similar looking shore crabs under and between rocks in the nearshore intertidal at Lady Bay Reef Watch site on the day.
Tentative. There were numerous similar crabs under rocks in the shallow intertidal (with a few resting in the open like this one, and an accompanying 6yo child caught it by hand and remarked that the carapace was soft so I guess it had just shed older exoskeleton)
Lady Bay Reef Watch site.
Nb all crabs collected in a bucket by the 6yo were RTW in good condition.
Very small crab found under a pebble in a few cm depth at the Lady Bay Reef Watch site and also imaged in a 6yo lad's palm prior rtw.