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Helmet Crab

Telmessus cheiragonus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in British Columbia.January 97, February 90, March 140, April 164, May 254, June 221, July 175, August 156, September 137, October 109, November 88, December 89.
United States2,208
Canada1,715
British Columbia1,715
Washington1,015
Alaska451
Russia88
Sakhalin Oblast53
Kamchatka Krai15
Primorsky Krai14
Japan6

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassMalacostracans · Malacostraca
OrderDecapods · Decapoda
FamilyHelmet Crabs · Cheiragonidae
GenusTelmessus

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