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It is known by different names around the world. In the British Isles, it is generally referred to as the shore crab, or green shore crab. In North America and South Africa, it bears the name European green crab. C. maenas is a widespread invasive species, listed among the 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species. [2]
European green crabs are considered to be one of the world’s worst invasive species and a significant threat to the health of Washington’s marine waters. Their destructive tendencies damage ...
Carcinus aestuarii, also known as the Mediterranean green crab is a littoral crab, native to the Mediterranean Sea.. Carcinus aestuarii bears some similarities to Carcinus maenas and was sometimes considered to be a subspecies thereof, rather than a species in its own right, but a molecular biological study using the COI gene found the difference between the two taxa to be substantial ...
In the British Isles, it is generally referred to simply as the shore crab. In North America and South Africa, it bears the name green crab or European green crab. In Australia and New Zealand, it is referred to as either the European green crab or European shore crab.
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Sacculina carcini, the crab hacker barnacle, [2] is a species of parasitic barnacle in the family Sacculinidae, in particular a parasitic castrator, of crabs.The crab that most often is used as a host is the green crab, the natural range of which is the coasts of Europe and North Africa. [2]
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A sea otter eyes its lunch, one of two invasive European green crabs it was able to retrieve underwater. Photo taken in 2011 in Moss Landing, CA. Green crabs are originally from Europe and arrived ...