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Selatium
Selatium, or mangrove crabs, grow to around 2 cm - 2.5 cm in size, and have a distinct patterning on their dorsal side. Their legs and carapace display a striped pattern. The carapace itself is flat and square-shaped. It is wider than it is long and has deep grooves along the surface that separate each region. A large, sharp tooth is present on the carapace near the eyes. Selatium morphology also consists of chelipeds, or the front pair...
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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 578563.