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  • Thumbnail for King crab
    King crabs are decapod crustaceans in the family Lithodidae that are chiefly found in deep waters. King crabs are not true crabs and are generally thought...
    25 KB (2,144 words) - 18:49, 5 October 2024
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    family Limulidae are also called horseshoe crabs, but they are restricted to Asia. Despite the name, horseshoe crabs are more closely related to arachnids...
    50 KB (5,484 words) - 07:17, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chionoecetes opilio
    11 stages of growth for male crabs are recognized. Usually, the male crabs are almost twice the size of the female crabs. Males can grow up to 16.5 cm...
    17 KB (1,870 words) - 13:48, 12 August 2024
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    Retrieved 19 February 2012.[dead link] "The Coconut-Crab Terrestrial-Hermit Crabs of the-Ryukyu-Islands". Okinawa Nature Photography. 5 July 2017. Archived...
    62 KB (5,750 words) - 18:16, 27 September 2024
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    important habitat for coconut crabs (Birgus latro), which have been otherwise extirpated from most of the other Andaman Islands except from South Sentinel...
    35 KB (3,171 words) - 02:38, 30 September 2024
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    who had been attempting to illegally harvest crabs off North Sentinel Island, drifted towards the island after their boat's makeshift anchor failed during...
    66 KB (6,435 words) - 09:43, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chagos Archipelago
    -ɡoʊs/) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Bassas de Chagas, and later the Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 islands in the Indian...
    81 KB (8,714 words) - 10:41, 10 October 2024
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    Expansion, from Maritime Southeast Asia, to Micronesia, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar. Crab claw sails are rigged fore-and-aft and can be tilted...
    25 KB (2,425 words) - 04:30, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stenorhynchus seticornis
    Decorator crab Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of...
    13 KB (1,309 words) - 19:27, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tangier, Virginia
    settle the island arrived in the 1770s, and were farmers. In the late 19th century, the islanders began to become more dependent on harvesting crabs and oysters...
    35 KB (3,631 words) - 13:42, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tromelin Island
    present everywhere on the island. The fauna consist mainly of hermit crabs (Paguroidea), seabirds, and sea turtles for which the island is an important nesting...
    32 KB (3,330 words) - 18:44, 18 August 2024
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    juveniles are prey to coconut crabs, land crabs, rats and birds. In the past giant tortoises have been relocated to other islands in Seychelles and also to...
    51 KB (5,112 words) - 15:27, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Munidopsis polymorpha
    (also known as the blind albino cave crab, Jameos blind crab or jameito) that is endemic to Lanzarote, Canary Islands. They are small, blind and pale, and...
    2 KB (199 words) - 12:29, 19 May 2024
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    stump-toed gecko and the copper-tailed skink), bright-orange land crabs known as Clipperton crabs (Johngarthia oceanica, prior to 2019 classified as Johngartia...
    167 KB (16,596 words) - 06:22, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Catanduanes
    "queen" or "gravid" crabs designed to ensure the sustainability of the industry in the province, which originally owned the "crab capital of the Philippines"...
    86 KB (7,737 words) - 05:25, 8 October 2024
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    larval development. Robber crabs, known elsewhere as coconut crabs, also exist in large numbers on the island. The annual red crab mass migration to the sea...
    108 KB (10,103 words) - 06:40, 4 October 2024
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    and crabs which dwell in the waters. It is also possible to spot bottlenose and Risso's dolphins, and porpoises. The currents around the island are responsible...
    38 KB (3,710 words) - 23:25, 28 September 2024
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    amphipods, the abundant Ocipodid crabs, mainly represented by fiddler crabs, do not permanently ventilate their burrows. These crabs may temporarily leave their...
    97 KB (10,461 words) - 20:41, 20 September 2024
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    species of land crab called Gecarcinus ruricola, and the island was one also the homes of the extinct Grand Cayman thrush. The Cayman Island's Turtle Farm...
    19 KB (1,627 words) - 18:19, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aleutian Islands
    "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and...
    42 KB (4,430 words) - 03:57, 10 October 2024
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