{"scientificNameAuthorship":"Ng & Davie, 2012","RecordModifiedOn":"2018-06-14","CAAB_code":"28931007","phylum":"Arthropoda","Notes":"This species has previously been confused with the wide-spread Western Pacific species Discoplax hirtipes. It is endemic to Christmas Island (Indian Ocean).","habitat":"Freshwater
","NameVerifiedSource":"Ng, P.K.L., Shih, H.-T., 2014. The systematics of the land crabs of the Discoplax hirtipes (Dana, 1851) species-group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae), with description of a new species from the eastern Indian Ocean., Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. Suppl. 30: 109-135.","Parent_Id":28931902,"scientificName":"Discoplax celeste","kingdom":"Animalia","order":"Decapoda","otherVernacularNames":"","Reference":"Ng, P.K.L., Davie, P.J.F., 2012. The Blue Crab of Christmas Island, Discoplax celeste, new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae)., The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. 60(1): 89-100.","vernacularName":"Christmas Island Blue Crab","ChildCodes":"","RecordCreatedOn":"2010-07-31","scientificNameID_WoRMS":"urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:881888","family":"Gecarcinidae","standardName":"","class":"Malacostraca","scientificNameID_AFD":"urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:6f4e407c-4e16-4896-bd13-24b0e3b7d0dd","CAAB_status":"Valid"}