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A live
blue crab on my dining room table
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Plagusia
depressa, the tidal spray crab, Cherry Grove Beach, SC, 10/07/07.
Because the spray or splash zone is only splashed by spray and
rarely covered by water, the only marine animals found there
are those able to live outside water and while exposed to air.
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Striped
Hermit Crab, Sunset Beach, 07/11/07
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Sargassum
Crab, Portunus sayi, Sunset Beach, 07/11/07
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Purse
crab found on Edisto Beach, SC,03/05/07
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Stone
crabs
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Iridescent
swimming crab found on Sunset Beach, NC, 01/10/07
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Lady
crab found under the sand on Sunset Beach, NC, 01/06/07
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Speckled
crab found under the sand on Sunset Beach, NC
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Speckled
Crab, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/25/07
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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.
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Pilumnus
sayi
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Pilumnus
sayi with stone crab claws -- The one on the right is 6.5 inches
wide.
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A stone
crab at the Miss Regina shrimp stand in Little River, SC, 11/16/06
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Horseshoe
crab exoskeletons or molts found on Sunset Beach, NC, 11/03/06
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Iridescent
Swimming Crab, Portunus gibbesii, a relative of the blue crab
-- surfacing in left photo
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Sand
Fiddler Crabs
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Hermit
crab without a home
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Large
live Horseshoe Crab, shell 10 inches wide
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Live
Spider Crab
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Spider
Crab under water
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Baby
Stone Crab
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Porcelain
Crab in Aquarium
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Calico
Crab
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Calico
Crab
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Sponge
Purse Crab ready to release millions of eggs
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Blue
Crab just released from "ghost crab pot" where it
and others had been trapped
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Ghost
Crab, back L and front R
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Ghost
Crab Hole
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Stone
Crab
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Stone
Crab
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Mud
Crab Shell
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Lady
Crab Shells
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Purse
Crab Shells
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Calico
Crab Shells
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