A live blue crab on my dining room table
  
Striped Hermit Crab
Striped Hermit Crab, Sunset Beach, 07/11/07
Sargassum Crab
Portunus sayi
Sargassum Crab, Portunus sayi, Sunset Beach, 07/11/07
Purse Crab
Purse Crab
Purse crab found on Edisto Beach, SC,03/05/07
  
Stone crabs
  
Iridescent swimming crab found on Sunset Beach, NC, 01/10/07
 
Lady crab found under the sand on Sunset Beach, NC, 01/06/07
Speckled crab found under the sand on Sunset Beach, NC
  
Horseshoe Crab
Horseshoe Crab
Mail Horseshoe Crab, live, found 12/14 & 12/15/06 on Sunset Beach, NC. There are mollusks attached on the top and bottom. The weight was at least 10 pounds as well as the width of the carapace.
  
Pilumnus sayi
Pilumnus sayi
Pilumnus sayi
Stone Crab claws
Stone Crab claw
Pilumnus sayi with stone crab claws -- The one on the right is 6.5 inches wide.
Stone Crab
Stone Crab
A stone crab at the Miss Regina shrimp stand in Little River, SC, 11/16/06
  
Horseshoe Crab Molts
Horseshoe Crab Molts
Horseshoe crab exoskeletons or molts found on Sunset Beach, NC, 11/03/06
  
Iridescent Swimming Crab
Portunus gibbesii
Iridescent Swimming Crab, Portunus gibbesii, a relative of the blue crab -- surfacing in left photo
  
Sand Fiddler Crabs
Hermit Crab
Sand Fiddler Crabs
Hermit crab without a home
  
Horseshoe Crab
Horseshoe Crab
Large live Horseshoe Crab, shell 10 inches wide
  
Spider Crab
Spider Crab
Live Spider Crab
Spider Crab under water
  
Juvenile Stone Crab
Porcelain Crab
Baby Stone Crab
Porcelain Crab in Aquarium
  
Calico Crab
Calico Crab
Calico Crab
Calico Crab
  
Purse Crab
Sponge Purse Crab
Sponge Purse Crab ready to release millions of eggs
  
Blue Crab
Blue Crab
Blue Crab just released from "ghost crab pot" where it and others had been trapped
  
Ghost Crab back
Ghost Crab
Ghost Crab, back L and front R
  
Ghost Crab hole
Stone Crab
Ghost Crab Hole
Stone Crab
  
Stone Crab
Stone Crab
Stone Crab
 
Mud Crab Shell
Mud Crab Shell
  
Lady Crab Shells
Purse Crab Shells
Lady Crab Shells
Purse Crab Shells
  
Calico Crab Shells
Calico Crab Shells
Calico Crab Shells

I am deeply indebted to the following individual for her assistance in identifying species:

Gayle R. Plaia
Research Technician II
Department of Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
North Carolina State University