Short spined crab

Short spined crab

Thalamita danae is an animal belonging to the genus Thalamita in the family Crabs. It is distributed in Japan, the Philippines, Australia, New Caledonia, Indonesia, India, the Red Sea, and Chinese Mainland's Guangxi, the Xisha Islands, Hainan Island and other places. Its living environment is sea water, and it mostly lives in the rock reefs near the low tide line and the sandy or muddy shallow seabed, especially in coral reef areas.