Davusia

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Shiny bait crab

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Plagusiidae
Genus:	Davusia
Species:	D. glabra
Binomial name
*Davusia glabra* (Dana, 1852)

Davusia glabra, commonly called the shiny bait crab,^[1] Sowrie crab^[2] or Sourie crab is the sole species of crab in the genus Davusia.^[3] It lives around the low tide area on rocky ocean shores on the eastern coast of Australia (southern Queensland to Victoria), in crevices and rock pools and on rock platforms.^[1] Its distribution is stated differently in different sources; some have described the crab's habitat as from Queensland to as far south as the NSW-Victorian border,^[2] while others have stated it can be found as far south as Wilson's Promontory (Southern Victoria).^[4] Its carapace is grey to fawn-colored with very small green spots, resulting in Davusia glabra having a greenish appearance.^[2] The width of the carapace is around 30-40 mm across^[1] and is smooth without hair, slightly wider than long, with 3 distinct spines at each edge.^[2]

Plagusia glabra is a synonym of Davusia glabra,.^[3] The species was placed in the new Davusia genus in 2007^[5] due to differences in morphology from other species in Plagusia.

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c "Davusia glabra". Queensland Museum. 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-07-05. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Ocean Shore Crabs of New South Wales," (PDF). Retrieved 2022-09-22.
^ ^a ^b "Australian Faunal Directory". Australian Biological Resources Study. 2018. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
^ Gary C. B. Poore & Shane T. Ahyong (2004). "Mictyridae Dana, 1851". Marine decapod Crustacea of southern Australia: a guide to identification. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 487–489. ISBN 0-643-06906-2.
^ Guinot, D. (2007-06-04). "A new genus of the family Plagusiidae Dana, 1851 close to Plagusia Latreille, 1804 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)". Zootaxa. 1498.

Taxon identifiers
Davusia glabra	Wikidata: Q13584004 Wikispecies: Davusia glabra AFD: Davusia_glabra CoL: 6CG8N GBIF: 5970879 iNaturalist: 512837 IRMNG: 11782630 NCBI: 664987 OBIS: 444470 Open Tree of Life: 134074 WoRMS: 444470
Plagusia glabra	Wikidata: Q40630602 CoL: 4JHW4 GBIF: 4646160 IRMNG: 11384040 WoRMS: 454798

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