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Portly Spider Crab Carapace This spider crab has a roughly triangular outline and a very heavily calcified carapace. It was about 100 mm long. But, with the legs, it would have been 300 mm long. Geotagged,Libinia,Libinia emarginata,Portly Spider Crab Carapace,Summer,United States,carapace,crab,spider crab Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Portly Spider Crab Carapace

This spider crab has a roughly triangular outline and a very heavily calcified carapace. It was about 100 mm long. But, with the legs, it would have been 300 mm long.

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The Portly spider crab

''Libinia emarginata'', the portly spider crab, common spider crab or nine-spined spider crab, is a species of stenohaline crab that lives on the Atlantic coast of North America.

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Similar species: Decapods
Species identified by Christine Young
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By Christine Young

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Uploaded Feb 25, 2018. Captured Aug 3, 2013 03:06 in 601 Boston Post Rd, Milford, CT 06460, USA.
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  • Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
  • f/8.0
  • 1/500s
  • ISO320
  • 100mm
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.

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