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Spiny Spooner
Etisus dentatus
Etisus dentatus is a species of crab that lives in the Indo-Pacific, including the Red Sea, South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, the Seychelles, India, the Andaman Islands, Japan, Taiwan, China, the Balabac Strait, the Torres Strait, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti and the Hawaiian Islands.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Etisus dentatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 485369.