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Hepatus epheliticus, known by various names, including the calico crab (not to be confused with Ovalipes ocellatus) and Dolly Varden crab, is a species of crab. It lives in shallow water in the western Atlantic Ocean from the Chesapeake Bay to the Dominican Republic .
The claws are smooth, purplish gray, with a single row of nodules along the outer edge, and blunt claw tips. The legs are covered with numerous short spines and nodules. It is the largest native crab species of the Atlantic. It can reach up to 3 kg of weight and a carapace length of 18 cm. [3] Dorsal and ventral views of two different sized males
The Maplewood Historic District is located in Rochester in Monroe County, New York. The district is distinguished as having landscape designs, including Maplewood Park, originally laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted. [2] The district consists of 432 contributing structures and four contributing sites.
Like the blue crab, its common name comes from the color of its shell; it is usually cream to tan in color. Both parts of the binomen Chaceon fenneri commemorate Fenner A. Chace Jr. [ 1 ] It is found on the ocean floor at depths of 200 to 1,500 m (660–4,920 ft) in the tropical west Atlantic, ranging from the Gulf of Mexico to Brazil. [ 2 ]
Calappa hepatica, the reef box crab, [2] is a common benthic species of box crab of tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Red Sea. [ 3 ] Description
The graceful rock crab or slender crab, Metacarcinus gracilis (the naming convention recognized by WoRMS) or Cancer gracilis (the naming convention recognized by ITIS), is one of two members of the genus Metacarcinus, with white tipped chelae (claws). The second crab in the genus to have white tipped claws is M. magister (Dungeness crab). [2]
Oedignathus inermis is a species of king crab found off the Pacific coasts of the United States and Canada, from California [4] to Alaska, [5] and disjunctly around the coasts of Japan. [6] It is the only species in the genus Oedignathus , and is sometimes called the granular claw crab , [ 1 ] paxillose crab , [ 7 ] or tuberculate nestling ...