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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.
Kiwa tyleri, the Hoff crab, is a species of deep-sea squat lobster in the family Kiwaidae, which lives on hydrothermal vents near Antarctica. [1] The crustacean was given its English nickname in 2010 by UK deep-sea scientists aboard the RRS James Cook, owing to resemblance between its dense covering of setae on the ventral surface of the exoskeleton and the hairy chest of the actor David ...
Marine larval ecology is the study of the factors influencing dispersing larvae, which many marine invertebrates and fishes have. Marine animals with a larva typically release many larvae into the water column, where the larvae develop before metamorphosing into adults.
Chaceon fenneri, commonly known as the golden crab or golden deepsea crab, is one of several species of crab harvested for food by humans. It was formerly called Geryon fenneri . Like the blue crab , its common name comes from the color of its shell; it is usually cream to tan in color.
Kiwa puravida is a species of deep-sea dwelling decapod, a member of the genus Kiwa, a genus of animals sometimes informally known as "yeti crabs". [1]The crabs live at deep-sea cold seeps where they feed on symbiotic Pseudomonadota, which they cultivate on hair-like projections on their claws.
Fishermen and scientists were alarmed when billions of crabs vanished from the Bering Sea near Alaska in 2022. It wasn’t overfishing, scientists explained — it was likely the shockingly warm ...
Gordonopsis is a genus of deep sea crabs in the family Homolidae. [2] The Homolidae are also known as carrier crabs [3] or porter crabs [4] for their fifth pereiopods (last pair of walking legs), which they use to hold objects in place over the rear half of the carapace in a possible defence mechanism against predators. [5]
Chaceon affinis is a deep-sea crab in the family Geryonidae. It was fist described in 1894 based on specimens caught off the Azores by the yacht L'Hirondelle. The species is found in the Atlantic from 140 to 2,000 m (460 to 6,560 ft) metres deep. They have a carapace length of 8 to 12 cm (3.1 to 4.7 in). [1]