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Small Mud Crab

Dyspanopeus sayi

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Virginia.January 21, February 23, March 25, April 41, May 53, June 26, July 21, August 21, September 25, October 23, November 19, December 19.
United States732
Canada380
Virginia317
Massachusetts167
Quebec117
Nova Scotia112
Prince Edward Island81
New Brunswick54
South Carolina43
New York38

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
FamilyMud Crabs · Panopeidae
GenusDyspanopeus

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