shore crab

For further specifics, see those of the smooth shore crab.

The shore crab is easy to identify by its pointed rear legs.

"Then, almost overnight, the kids were coming back with buckets full of nothing but these shore crabs," she said.

Life for shore crabs at a seaside resort is about to get a little bit easier.

The smooth shore crab is usually found under stones, and may be heard making clicking sounds.

The small shore crab is an efficient predator and colonizer.

As with Palaeocarpilius powerful claws are held close to the body, like the living shore crab.

Shore crabs, which live higher up the beach, time their activities to coincide with the high tide.

The common name smooth shore crab may apply to more than one species:

Shore crabs are ubiquitous, and will grip the netting with their legs.

"When in larval form, they share the same plankton as other shore crabs," she said.

Shore crabs are a nocturnal predator which means it hunts at night.

Japanese shore crabs make a home for themselves in Long Island Sound, more than 6,000 miles away.

Responses of shore crabs to physiological challenges following exposure to selected environmental contaminants.

In the British Isles, it is generally referred to simply as the shore crab.

Behaviour and population ecology of juvenile European shore crabs in Tasmania.

Purple shore crabs drag their bodies across the sand, leaving "tire" marks.

Where such communities occur on a rocky shore crab apple often grows with roses and dog violet.

By the late 1980s, the Japanese shore crab, an invasive species, was the most commonly found crab in the sound.

Shore crabs live on beaches and rocky shores.

Shore crabs, like many crustaceans, like to hide in dark, tight spaces.

"On the excretion of zinc by the shore crab Carcinus maenas."

Shore Crabs like sheltered conditions, which is why harbour walls and jetties are the best hunting grounds.

Pachygrapsus is a genus of small shore crabs.

During a stroll along the beach, the first two rocks to be turned over exposed Pacific shore crabs burrowing into the sand.