Scorpion Mud Lobster

Thalassina anomala

• Group: Lobster

A heavy bodied mud lobster of mangrove shores, it grows up to thirty centimetres and digs deep burrows in the littoral mud. The excavated mud piles into tall chimneys, sometimes 75 centimetres high, that stand out as a striking feature of the swamp.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Thalassinidae › Thalassina

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 477807.