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Ward's Hairy-legged Crab
Paracleistostoma wardi
Paracleistostoma wardi is a species of crab first described as Cleistostoma wardi in 1926 by zoologist Mary J. Rathbun and named after former actor, marine collector and later honorary zoologist Charles Melbourne Ward. The type specimens were from mudflats in Sandgate, Queensland, Australia. It is known as Ward's hairy-legged crab, with Rathbun describing it as having "Ambulatory legs" which are "densely hairy". The crabs are small with holotypes 17.6 mm across the carapace and 12.2 mm
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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 739201.