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Chaceon quinquedens, commonly known as the red deep-sea crab, [2] but sold as Atlantic deep sea red crab, or simply Atlantic red crab or red crab, is a crab that lives in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast of the United States and Canada, from North Carolina to Nova Scotia, [3] [4] and in the Gulf of Mexico.
Pelagic red crab (Grimothea planipes)Grimothea planipes usually feeds on protists and zooplankton, but will feed by filtering blooms of diatoms. [7]As the most abundant species of micronekton in the California Current, Grimothea planipes fills an important ecological niche converting primary production into energy that larger organisms can use. [8]
Red crab may refer to: Red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) Christmas Island red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis) Dungeness crab (Metacarcinus magister) Chaceon quinquedens, also known as the "deep-sea red crab" Gecarcinus ruricola, also known as the "red land crab" Pleuroncodes planipes, a squat lobster also known as the "pelagic red crab"
The whale shark is one of the red crab's few natural predators. Adult red crabs have no natural predators on Christmas Island. [ 12 ] The yellow crazy ant , an invasive species accidentally introduced to Christmas Island and Australia from Africa, is believed to have killed 10–15 million red crabs (one-quarter to one-third of the total ...
The crab's round, flat carapace is slightly longer than 8 centimetres (3.1 in). Young G. grapsus are black or dark brown in colour and are camouflaged well on the black lava coasts of volcanic islands. Adults are quite variable in colour; some are muted brownish-red, some mottled or spotted brown, pink, or yellow.
Atergatis subdentatus, also known as the red reef crab, [2] dark-finger coral crab [2] or eyed coral crab, [3] is a species of crab in the family Xanthidae. [ 1 ] Description
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The red rock crab (Guinusia chabrus) is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Plagusiidae. [1] It is found in the southern Indian and southern Pacific Oceans , including South Africa , Australia , New Zealand , and Chile .