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FIGURE 1 in Taxonomy and ecology of the Cape Town Spider Crab, Macropodia falcifera (Stimpson, 1858) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Inachidae)

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FIGURE 1. Macropodia falcifera (Stimpson, 1858). Colours in life. A, on gorgonian (Eunicella albicans), False Bay, photographed 2 May 2007; B, on gorgonian (Leptogorgia palma), Fantastic Reef, False Bay, 30 m, photographed 3 August 2009; C, male (18.65 × 11.10 mm) (ZRC), on gorgonian (Eunicella tricoronata), Batsata Reef, False Bay, 24 m, photographed April 2009; D, in front of anemone (Anthothoe chilensis), Batsata Reef, False Bay, 25 m, photographed March 2009; E, on palmate sea fan (Leptogorgia palma), Batsata Reef, False Bay, ca. 25 m, photographed April 2012; F, at base of crinoid (Tropiometra carinata), surrounded by smaller crinoids (Comanthus wahlbergi), with hydroids on carapace, Batsata Reef, False Bay, photographed April 2012. All photographs by G. Jones, localities in South Africa.

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Published as part of Ng, Peter K. L., Forges, Bertrand Richer De & Jones, Georgina, 2013, Taxonomy and ecology of the Cape Town Spider Crab, Macropodia falcifera (Stimpson, 1858) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Inachidae), pp. 391-396 in Zootaxa 3626 (3) on page 393, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3626.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/216573

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