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    The Christmas Island red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis) is a species of land crab that is endemic to Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian...
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    Gecarcoidea is a genus of terrestrial crabs. The crabs live in forests but must come to the coast to breed. When it is dry in the summer the crabs are...
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    red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis) for leaf litter resources. The decline of predator rat species allowed for the quickened rise of G. natalis, a usual prey...
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    Bermuda land crab, red land crab (leading to easy confusion with Gecarcoidea natalis) and moon crab (leading to easy confusion with G. quadratus and Cardisoma...
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    outnumbered there by more than 50 times by the Christmas Island red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis). Other Indian Ocean populations exist on the Seychelles, including...
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    Agnieszka M.; Morris, Stephen (June 2001). "Ecology and behaviour of Gecarcoidea natalis, the Christmas Island red crab, during the annual breeding migration"...
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    following the Indian Ocean monsoon, the Christmas Island red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis) migrates en masse, forming a "living carpet" of crabs. The crabs...
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    reflect the effects of large populations of terrestrial red crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis). Because of the remoteness of the islands, there are many endemic...
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  • Australia begins in October/November each year. Millions of red crabs Gecarcoidea natalis migrate from the Australian islands to the Indian Ocean during this...
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  • king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) Christmas Island red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis) Chaceon quinquedens, also known as the "deep-sea red crab" Pleuroncodes...
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    characterisation of β-glucosidase from the herbivorous gecarcinid land crab Gecarcoidea natalis ". The Journal of Experimental Biology. 213 (Pt 17): 2950–7. doi:10...
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    elimination of populations of the island's keystone species the red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis) resulting in significant changes to forest composition. In addition...
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    Agnieszka M.; Morris, Stephen (June 2001). "Ecology and behaviour of Gecarcoidea natalis, the Christmas Island red crab, during the annual breeding migration"...
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    Gecarcoidea lalandii is a large species of terrestrial crab. It is dark purple in colour, with long legs and short pincers. It is nocturnal, so spends...
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    noted for its prodigious populations of Christmas Island red crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis), whose mass migrations at spawning time may number over a hundred...
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    seen in other land crabs, such as the Christmas Island red crab, Gecarcoidea natalis. In most members of the family Gecarcinidae, migration coincides...
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    Epigrapsus Gecarcinus Gecarcoidea Johngarthia Tuerkayana Mitochondrial genome sequencing indicates that members of the family (Gecarcoidia natalis and Cardisoma...
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    Christmas white-eye (Zosterops natalis) visits the flowers, while the Christmas Island red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis) eat the fallen fruit. The Mariana...
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    continental rainforest. One of the main fauna is the red land crab, Gecarcoidea natalis, which feeds on small seedlings. Vertebrates include geckos such...
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