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Hairy Porcelain Crab

Porcellana platycheles

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 152, February 112, March 175, April 276, May 398, June 434, July 464, August 399, September 293, October 219, November 120, December 93.
United States3,136
Alaska3,136
United Kingdom491
England388
Spain102
France90
Galicia46
Netherlands42
Portugal41
Northern Ireland40

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Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassMalacostracans · Malacostraca
OrderDecapods · Decapoda
FamilyPorcelain Crabs · Porcellanidae
GenusPorcellana

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