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Snow Crab

Chionoecetes opilio

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Quebec.January 24,091, February 20,939, March 32,519, April 77,536, May 142,921, June 94,478, July 78,897, August 72,474, September 63,680, October 53,374, November 31,142, December 28,120.
Canada1,447,745
Quebec720,171
Nova Scotia719,829
United States12,346
Alaska11,939
Maine398
Newfoundland and Labrador92
New Brunswick46
Prince Edward Island26
Northwest Territories10

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
FamilyOregoniidae
GenusTanner Crabs · Chionoecetes

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