Houston Chronicle Sunday

Colorfully unique

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A team of Australian and Chinese marine biologists have found a new, colorful species and genus of freshwater crab after initially spotting its unusual color and legs in a Chinese ornamental fish market.

The scientists were taken to where it was caught in Guangdong province, discoverin­g that the newly named Yuebeipota­mon calciatile lives on the limestone beds of shifting hill streams.

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