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20-08-2007, 12:10 PM
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| |  crab id
Its been 13! years since I left uni and getting my degree in marine and freshwater biology. As I haven't "used" it since, I have forgotten most things! & misplaced my seashore book: which crab, revealed underneath seaweeds on the seashore, is this?  |
20-08-2007, 12:32 PM
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| | | Re: crab id
Living here in the midlands it's not all too often that i see crabs or seashore wildlfe! So excuse my ignorance. Is it the edible crab i wonder?  |
20-08-2007, 01:43 PM
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| | | Re: crab id
looks like a green shore crab to me, carcinus maenas.
brian. |
20-08-2007, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by humbug  looks like a green shore crab to me, carcinus maenas.
brian. | Yes i was looking at my first picture in my book on crabs and it's shore crab i was looking at but it's number 2listing in the litature given edible crab! that's there i went wrong  |
20-08-2007, 02:12 PM
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| | | Re: crab id
Found my seashore book - signed copy by the author who was a lecturer at the university I attended 13-16 years ago!!
The illustration is green! but the text says "carapace brown, olive or dark green above, green-yellow below." |
20-08-2007, 04:57 PM
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| | | Re: crab id
The current issue of BBC Wildlife magazine has an ID parade of 9 crab species on page 9 for those who want to learn more of this crustaceans. |
20-08-2007, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Goosegogs Found my seashore book - signed copy by the author who was a lecturer at the university I attended 13-16 years ago!!
The illustration is green! but the text says "carapace brown, olive or dark green above, green-yellow below." | What is his/her name? i might be holding the same book? |
20-08-2007, 07:49 PM
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| | | Re: crab id
Hi
sounds like the Hamlyn guide by Dr Andrew Campbell , if so I'm also holding the same book
And yes .I'd agree with Common Shore Crab - C. maenas.
neil |
20-08-2007, 08:22 PM
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yes Carcinus maenas plenty of them over here. |
20-08-2007, 08:47 PM
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| |  Re: crab id
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Originally Posted by wildlifesnapper Hi
sounds like the Hamlyn guide by Dr Andrew Campbell , if so I'm also holding the same book
And yes .I'd agree with Common Shore Crab - C. maenas.
neil | Yep, thats the book  . No longer Hamlyn's these days - Philip's guide now... | | | |
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