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Ashtoret lunaris Spotted Moon Crab, Yellow Moon Crab, Speckled Moon Crab

Ashtoret lunarisis commonly referred to as Spotted Moon Crab, Yellow Moon Crab, Speckled Moon Crab. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Ashtoret lunaris,Yellow moon crab, Spotted moon crab 2017


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lexID:
3320 
AphiaID:
107310 
Scientific:
Ashtoret lunaris 
German:
Gepunktete Mondkrabbe, Gelbe Mondkrabbe 
English:
Spotted Moon Crab, Yellow Moon Crab, Speckled Moon Crab 
Category:
Crabs 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Matutidae (Family) > Ashtoret (Genus) > lunaris (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Forskål, ), 1775 
Occurrence:
(the) Maldives, Australia, Central Atlantic, Central Pazific, Circumtropic, East Africa, European Coasts, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Israel, Kenya, Levantine Sea (Mediterranean), Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, North Atlantic Ocean, Red Sea, Réunion , Somalia, South-Africa, South-Pazific, Tansania, the Mediterranean Sea, the Seychelles, Western Indian Ocean, Western Pacific Ocean 
Sea depth:
0 - 50 Meter 
Size:
1.18" - 3.15" (3cm - 8cm) 
Weight:
39.9 g 
Temperature:
24,7 °F - 29,1 °F (24,7°C - 29,1°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Clams, Fish (little fishes), Krill, Predatory, Smelts, Worms 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2023-11-16 15:41:57 

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Ashtoret lunaris (Forskål, 1775)

Ashtoret lunaris, also known as the yellow moon crab, spotted moon crab or box crab, is an Indo-Pacific species of carnivorous crab which is a member of the family Matutidae. It has been recorded in the eastern Mediterranean since 2010, likely reaching it via the Suez Canal from the Red Sea by (see Lessepsian migration).

Synonymised names
Cancer lunaris Forskål, 1775 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Matuta banksi Leach, 1817 · unaccepted > misspelling
Matuta Banksii Leach, 1817 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Matuta lunaris (Forskål, 1775) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Scientific paper

  1. The complete mitogenome of the moon crab Ashtoret lunaris (Forskal, 1775), (Crustacea; Decapoda; Matutidae), Tan, Mun Hua; Gan, Han Ming; Lee, Yin Peng; Austin, Christopher M. , 2014

External links

  1. sealifebase (en). Abgerufen am 16.11.2023.
  2. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 16.11.2023.
  3. Wildsingapore (en). Abgerufen am 16.11.2023.

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