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Crustacea

Red rock crab, Plagusia chabrus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Red rock crab, Plagusia chabrus (Linnaeus, 1758), collected 10 Mar 1993, Wairarapa, Castlepoint, below lighthouse, N side, below surface at ELWS, New Zealand. Te Papa

The Crustacea includes lobsters, crabs, shrimps, prawns, hoppers, wood lice, water fleas, and several other groups. Most crustaceans live in the sea but some are found in freshwater or on land.  The one thing they all need to survive is water, or at least a moist habitat.

 
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Crustacea collection

Crustacea collection

Te Papa's collection of Crustacea includes over 30,000 lots. It is strong in harpacticoid and parasitic copepods, decapod larvae, shrimps and prawns and lithodid crabs, reflecting the collecting interests of Te Papa staff and other contributors to the collections. more>

Crustacea research

Crustacea research

The Crustacea collections are primarily research collections. Current research into their taxonomy concentrates on lobsters, shrimps and prawns, and hermit crabs of New Zealand and the northern Tasman Sea. more>

Crustacean taxa

Crustacean taxa

The Crustacea has the greatest variety of forms found in any subphylum (or phylum) of animals. They can be microscopic in size to metres wide. Over 70,000 species have been named but there are many more than this still unnamed. more>

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