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The Puget Sound king crab, which has the scientific name Echidnocerus cibarius, is an uncommon species of crab with distinct features that can be found on the West Coast of the United States; from Alaska to Central California. Juvenile Puget Sound king crabs are primarily orange with some patches of red and purple.
Echidnocerus is a genus of king crab. It includes Echidnocerus foraminatus (the brown box crab ) and Echidnocerus cibarius , the Puget Sound king crab . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The genus was long known as Lopholithodes until it was discovered in 2022 that Lopholithodes is a junior synonym of Echidnocerus .
That’s where the Molt Search Program comes in, calling on the public’s help to keep the south Puget Sound free of this invasive species and monitor shorelines throughout the Salish Sea. How to ...
The southern sound is made up of areas 10,11, and 13. Hood Canal is marine area 12. [6] Dungeness are considered the most important fishery in Washington state with a 90-120 million dollar value annually. [7] In Puget Sound there is a yearly summer crabbing season open five days a week from the beginning of July to Labor Day.
Cancer productus is carnivorous; in Puget Sound it will crush barnacles with its large pincers for consumption. Small living crabs and dead fish are also eaten. Mating in this species occurs when the female is soft-shelled from October to June in Puget Sound. The male can often been seen guarding females until molting during this time. [4]
Its carapace is curved and smooth, with a slick texture. The front of the crab has a protrusion called a rostrum, extending the carapace and is used in feeding. [2] They have large chelipeds used for defense and feeding. The northern kelp crab is part of the spider crab family and exhibits the long many jointed hairless legs associated with the ...
Mark D. Bertness (born July 13, 1949) is an American ecologist, known for his work on the community assembly of marine shoreline communities. [1]Among his important work are the Stress Gradient Hypothesis (Bertness and Callaway 1994 [2]) that predicts that positive species interactions are more important in biologically and physically stressful habitats than in biologically and physically ...
Dungeness crab ready to eat at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco. The Dungeness crab is considered a delicacy in the United States and Canada. [13] [14] Long before the area was settled by Europeans, Indigenous peoples throughout the crustacean's range had the crab as a traditional part of their diet and harvested them every year at low tide. [15]