The tunnelling mud crab, Austrohelice crassa, is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Grapsidae, endemic to the sea coasts of New Zealand. Their carapace width is up to 40 mm.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Varunidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyclograpsinae |
| Genus: | Austrohelice K. Sakai, Türkay & Yang, 2006 [1] |
| Species: | A. crassa
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| Austrohelice crassa (Dana, 1851)
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References
edit- ^ a b c Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.1-286&rft.date=2008&rft.au=Peter K. L. Ng&rft.au=Danièle Guinot&rft.au=Peter J. F. Davie&rft_id=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Tunnelling mud crab" class="Z3988">
- ^ Hsi-Te Shih & Hiroshi Suzuki (2008). "Taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography of the endemic mudflat crab Helice/Chasmagnathus complex (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) from East Asia" (PDF). Zoological Studies. 47 (1): 114–125.114-125&rft.date=2008&rft.au=Hsi-Te Shih&rft.au=Hiroshi Suzuki&rft_id=http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/47.1/114.pdf&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Tunnelling mud crab" class="Z3988">
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