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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Eucarida (Crabs, Crayfish, Shrimp, etc.) (Eucarida) » Crabs, Crayfishes, Lobsters, Prawns, and Shrimp (Decapoda) » True Crabs (Brachyura) » Swimming Crabs (Portunidae) » Carcinus » Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)
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crab - Carcinus maenas
Copyright © 2010 Molly Jacobson

crab - Carcinus maenas
Bass Beach, Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
June 26, 2010
I had five goals that day:
1. Catch lots of crabs (I don't keep them I catch them for fun and let them go)
2. Photograph a kelp fly
3. Photograph a sand flea
4. Photograph marine springtails
5. Photograph a maritime earwig

Goal #1. Check. 61 crabs. That's how many I caught that day. This is the biggest. Found in the tide pools under rocks.

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Contributed by Molly Jacobson on 29 June, 2010 - 9:24pm
Last updated 30 June, 2014 - 11:22pm

Moved
Moved from True Crabs.
… Charley Eiseman, 24 October, 2010 - 8:48pm login or register to post comments

Invasive
This the the invasive Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) I believe.
… Ray Simpson, 24 October, 2010 - 7:50pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Crustaceans.
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