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	Lahinch Seaworld Japanese spider crab
		Sperm of male crabs are held in a case, or spermatophore.
		During the larval stage, or the zoea, the baby crabs are small, transparent organisms with round, legless bodies.
		Crabs attach sponges and other similar animals to their shells to ward off predators, such as octopuses.
	www.iol.ie /~seaworld/data/Crab.htm (442 words)

	Crab (animal) - MSN Encarta
		Crabs are divided into two groups: true crabs (about 4500 species) and hermit crabs and their allies (about 1400 species).
		Crabs are related to lobsters and shrimps, but their evolutionary development has enabled them to walk or run sideways and to burrow as well as swim.
		Fiddler crabs belong to the genus Uca, sand crabs to the genera Emerita and Blepharipoda, and hermit crabs to the genus Pagurus.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564259/Crab_(animal).html (831 words)

	crab \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short "tail" (Greek: brachy = short, ura = tail), or where the abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax.
		Crabs are found in all of the world's oceans; there are also many freshwater and terrestrial crabs, particularly in tropical regions.
		Crabs vary in size from the pea crab, only a few millimetres wide, to the Japanese spider crab, with a leg span of up to 4 m.
	www.babylon.com /definition/crab/English (739 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Crab
		Crabs vary in size from the pea crab, only a few millimetres wide, to the Japanese spider crab, with a leg span of up to 4 m.
		Crabs are omnivores, feeding primarily on algae, and taking any other food, including molluscs, worms, other crustaceans, fungi, bacteria and detritus, depending on their availability and the crab species.
		The radiation of crabs in the Cretaceous and afterwards may be linked either to the break-up of Gondwana or to the concurrent radiation of bony fish, the main predators of crabs.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Crab (892 words)

	CRAB : Encyclopedia Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short "tail" (Greek: brachy = short, ura = tail), or where the abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax.
		Crabs are found in all of the world's oceans; there are also many freshwater and terrestrial crabs, particularly in tropical regions.
		In females, these are on the third pereiopod, or nearby on the sternum in higher crabs; in males, the gonopores are at the base of the fifth pereiopods or, in higher crabs, on the sternum nearby.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Crab (1084 words)

	Japanese spider crab - Food & Drink - Recipes24 Net - recipes, cooking, cookbooks and more
		Japanese spider crab - Food & Drink - Recipes24 Net - recipes, cooking, cookbooks and more
		The Japanese Spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) is the largest crab alive; fully grown it can reach a leg span of almost 4 meters (13 feet), a body size of up to 37 cm (15 inches) and a weight of up to 20 kg (44 pounds).
		The crab's natural habitat is on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean (some 300m deep) around Japan, where it feeds on dead animals and shellfish.
	www.recipes24.net /encyclopedia/j/japanese_spider_crab.html (115 words)

	Giant Japanese spider
		The giant spider crab is one of the largest arthropods know to man. They measure up to 3.7 m from the tip of one claw to another.
		Spiders are characterised by poisonous fangs (chelicerates) and spinnerets for silk weaving.
		Furthermore, the DNA sequence for the giant spider crab is distinctly Crustacean.
	www.vincelewis.net /spider.html (679 words)

	Pacific Seafood Group
		The largest members of the spider crab family (legs on spider crabs are jointed backwards), king crab are found across a broad swath of the North Pacific, from Southeast Alaska to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.
		Blue king crab, which can be distinguished from red king crab by the more pronounced dark coloring on the tip of their legs, are almost as large as red king crab.
		Brown, or "golden," king crab is noticeably smaller and can easily be distinguished by its uniform red/orange color on their legs (the underside of red and blue king crab legs are a creamy white).
	www.pacseafood.com /products/king_crab.html (926 words)

	Japanese spider crab - the large food & drink encyclopedia
		Japanese spider crab - the large food & drink encyclopedia
		The Japanese Spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) is the largest crab alive; fully grown it can reach a leg span of almost 4 meters (13 feet), a body size of up to 37 cm (15 inches) and a weight of up to 20 kg (44 pounds).
		The crab's natural habitat is on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean (some 300m deep) around Japan, where it feeds on dead animals and shellfish.
	www.netmoon.com /recipes/encyclopedia/j/japanese_spider_crab.html (109 words)

	Crabs at Animal Corner
		Crabs are crustaceans and related to lobsters and shrimps.
		This reduction is greatest among the 'true crabs', which lack the flaplike tail of the hermit crabs and their allies; instead, the abdomen serves as a brood pouch for the eggs.
		Crabs can see fairly well with their compound eyes; their sense of smell and taste are also more advanced which helps them to find food and mates easier.
	www.animalcorner.co.uk /marine/crabs/crabs_about.html (283 words)

	Seabits eMail Newsletter
		Japanese spider crabs (Macrocheira kaempferi), which can grow up to a 12-foot clawspan, are the largest crustaceans in the world.
		When the crab does molt, the shell splits lengthwise, and the spider crab climbs out of the carapace (or body), with the tail then the tips of the legs exiting last.
		Mike wondered if the spider crabs would exhibit the same kind of behavior, and wasn't sure that the male spider crab should be allowed to stay with the female.
	www.neaq.org /community/seabits/newsletters/98aug.html (2899 words)

	Japanese_spider_crab - The Wordbook Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Japanese spider crab, Macrocheira kaempferi, is the largest living arthropod; fully grown it can reach a leg span of almost 4 m (13 feet), a body size of up to 37 cm (15 inches) and a weight of up to 20 kg (44 pounds).
		The crab's natural habitat is on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean (some 300 - 400 m deep) around Japan, where it feeds on dead animals and shellfish.
		The Japanese spider crab's habitat is limited to the Pacific side of the Japanese archipelago.
	www.thewordbook.com /Japanese_spider_crab (499 words)

	Fire & Knives: Crab Cakes for Lt. Ripley
		The crab is pushed flat onto a board, the knife is inserted into the centre point of the back and two fast cuts are made, towards the front of the shell.
		Crab cakes have long been a menu staple of diners on the Eastern Seaboard of the US and most of them are delicious.
		A diner crab cake recipe, therefore, will usually be based in roughly a third crabmeat, a third of mashed potato or breadcrumbs and a third of mayonnaise, milk, egg or a plethora of regionally specific ‘secret’ ingredients.
	www.fireandknives.com /2006/03/crab_cakes_for_lt_ripley.html (2268 words)

	Tennessee Aquarium Newsroom - News Release
		In the wild, they are cunning and persistent hunters, pursuing small crabs, shrimp and fish in cracks and crevasses in the ocean floor, coaxing them out with their long tentacles.
		The word arthropod means “jointed legs”; and giant spider crabs have plenty of those – 10 legs in all.
		Spider crab gills are located under their carapaces (the shell that covers the back of the crab).
	www.tennis.org /Newsroom/OJ_Boneless_Beauties.asp (2077 words)

	New Jersey Scuba Diver - Marine Biology - Crustaceans: Crabs
		Recreational crabbing is particularly important in the Upper Barnegat, Little Egg Harbor and Maurice River estuaries, comprising 65 to 86 percent of the total recreational harvest in these areas.
		Crabs are abundant all along the Jersey coast, from the Hackensack River to Delaware Bay.
		Mud Crabs are often abundant in sponge colonies, among bushy bryzoans and hydroids on pilings, and intertidally under rocks or other debris on protected shores.
	www.njscuba.net /biology/sw_crabs.html (1293 words)

	New Jersey Scuba Diver - Marine Biology - Crustaceans: Crabs
		Recreational crabbing is particularly important in the Upper Barnegat, Little Egg Harbor and Maurice River estuaries, comprising 65 to 86 percent of the total recreational harvest in these areas.
		Crabs are abundant all along the Jersey coast, from the Hackensack River to Delaware Bay.
		Mud Crabs are often abundant in sponge colonies, among bushy bryzoans and hydroids on pilings, and intertidally under rocks or other debris on protected shores.
	njscuba.net /biology/sw_crabs.html (1293 words)

	eat the seasons \| crab
		There are around 4,500 species of crab, ranging in size from the 5mm wide pea crab to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span in excess of 2m.
		Crab is a good source of a number of trace minerals including selenium, which counteracts cancer and chromosome damage as well as increasing our resistance to viral and bacterial infections.
		Chitin (pronounced kite-in), a substance derived from the shells of crabs and lobsters, has anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties and is used in wound dressings and burn treatments.
	www.eattheseasons.co.uk /Archive/crab.htm (456 words)

	Food Facts & Trivia: Crabs
		The smallest crabs are the pea crab, which live inside oyster shells, and can be less than 1.5 mm.
		The largest crab is the Japanese spider crab, which reach 12 feet from leg tip to leg tip, and a body 18 inches by 12 inches.
		The oldest crab industry in the United States is the blue crab industry of the Chesapeake Bay area, dating back almost to the early 1600s.
	www.foodreference.com /html/fcrabs.html (226 words)

	Crabs, Lobsters, and Shrimp
		Crabs, lobsters and shrimp are all a part of the scientific class crustaceans, which has 30,000 different species.
		Although a crab, lobster, or shrimp’s shell is useful, one thing stands in its way of being perfect.
		The Japanese spider crab can be up to 12 feet from the top of a claw to the other.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0211840/crabs,_lobsters,_and_shrimp.htm (202 words)

	MA & IFE \| Spider Crab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The largest spider crab is the Japanese spider crab with a leg spread of 4m (13ft).
		The pear-shaped carapace of spider crabs is covered with a number of small, hook-like projections and, in some species, hairs.
		Spider crabs possess nine pairs of gills located internally under the outer edge of the carapace.
	www.mysticaquarium.org /index.cgi/645 (467 words)

	Crab Spider
		The huntsman spider, Heteropoda venatoria (L.), sometimes called the giant crab spider or the banana spider (due to...
		The largest spider crab is the Japanese spider crab with a leg spread...
		Crab Spiders of Kentucky - University of Kentucky Entomology
	onlinelist.newcyberstar.org /crab-spider.html (444 words)

	Japanese spider crab - Definition, explanation
		The Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) is the largest crab alive; fully grown it can reach a leg span of almost 4 m (13 feet), a body size of up to 37 cm (15 inches) and a weight of up to 20 kg (44 pounds).
		The crab's natural habitat is on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean (some 300 m deep) around Japan, where it feeds on dead animals and shellfish.
		This particular type of crab is feared by some fishermen and sailors because some of the larger ones have been seen eating the flesh of drowned men.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/j/ja/japanese_spider_crab.php (173 words)

	Japanese spider crab - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The Japanese Spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) is the largest crab alive; fully grown it can reach a leg span of almost 4 meters (13 feet), a body size of up to 37 cm (15 inches) and a weight of up to 20 kg (44 pounds).
		The crab's natural habitat is on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean (some 300m deep) around Japan, where it feeds on dead animals and shellfish.
		The largest terrestrial crab is the Coconut crab.
	www.music.us /education/J/Japanese-spider-crab.htm (315 words)

	Wildlife of Sydney - Fact File - Decorator Crab, Seaweed Crab
		Once a suitable covering is found, the Decorator Crab snips it off with its pincers, coats the end with a special gland secretion that hardens in seawater, and deliberately places it onto its carapace.
		The crab continues the process until it is sufficiently covered.
		This group includes the largest crab in the world - the Giant Japanese Spider Crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) with a leg span of over 2 m.
	www.faunanet.gov.au /wos/factfile.cfm?Fact_ID=62 (144 words)

	Crab- Enchanted Learning Software
		There are almost 5,000 different species of crabs; about 4,500 are true crabs, plus about 500 are hermit crabs (hermit crabs don't have a very hard shell and use other animals' old shells for protection).
		The Biggest Crabs: The biggest crab is the Japanese Spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi), which lives on the floor of the north Pacific Ocean; it has a 12 ft (3.7 m) leg span.
		The biggest land crab is the Coconut crab (Birgus latro), which lives on islands in the Pacific Ocean; it has a leg span up to 2.5 ft (75 cm).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/Crab.shtml (286 words)

	REEF CRUSTACEA
		The latter is Japanese spider crab that is two meters long when the chelipeds are extended.
		Calappidae are the box crabs, specialized predators of mollusks that are capable of opening a shell with its specialized, notched “can-opener”-like chelipeds.
		Another common name for calappids is the “shame-faced” crabs, because their wide claws must be carried in front of their body as if to hide their “face” in shame.
	www.fiu.edu /~goldberg/coralreefs/CRUSTACEA.htm (3572 words)

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