Mictyris platycheles is a species of crab found on mudflats on the east coast of Australia from Tasmania and Victoria to Queensland. They live in large groups, so are commonly called soldier crabs. Adults are 15 mm (0.59 in) across and similarly tall, and are coloured blue to blue-grey. Mictyris platycheles gets its food by putting balls of sand in its mouth, which filters out the food particles (detritus).
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Soldier Crab being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Mictyris occidentalis
- Mictyris darwinensis
- Dotilla myctiroides
- Dotilla fenestrata
- Mictyris brevidactylus
- Mictyris longicarpus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Mictyridae
- Genus
- Mictyris
- Species
- Mictyris platycheles
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