#crab decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
supertype: #decapod_crustacean__decapodcrustacean__decapod crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
member of: #suborder_Brachyura
subtype: #Menippe_mercenaria__stone_crab__stonecrab large edible crab of S coat of United States especially Florida
subtype: #hard-shell_crab edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell
subtype: #soft-shell_crab__soft-shelled_crab edible crab that has recently molted and not yet formed its new shell
subtype: #Cancer_magister__Dungeness_crab small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America
subtype: #rock_crab__Cancer_irroratus crab of eastern coast of North America
subtype: #Jonah_crab__Cancer_borealis large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America
subtype: #swimming_crab marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming
subtype: #English_lady_crab__Portunus_puber crab of the English coasts
subtype: #American_lady_crab__lady_crab__calico_crab__Ovalipes_ocellatus brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the United States Atlantic coast
subtype: #Callinectes_sapidus__blue_crab bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America
subtype: #fiddler_crab__fiddlercrab burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male
subtype: #pea_crab__peacrab tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks
subtype: #oyster_crab__Pinnotheres_ostreum tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters
subtype: #Paralithodes_camtschatica__king_crab__Alaska_crab__Alaskan_king_crab__Alaska_king_crab large edible crab of North Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan
subtype: #spider_crab any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies
subtype: #European_spider_crab__king_crab__Maja_squinado large European spider crab
subtype: #giant_crab__giantcrab__Macrocheira_kaempferi very large deep-water Japanese crab
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