red deepsea crab
Chaceon quinquedens
Classification
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Geryonidae
Chaceon quinquedens, commonly known as the red deep-sea crab, but sold as Atlantic deep sea red crab, or simply Atlantic red crab or red crab, is a crab that lives in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast of the United States and Canada, from North Carolina to Nova Scotia, and in the Gulf of Mexico. Distinction The deep sea red-crab (DSRC) species resembles a snow crab from Alaska. However, they are actually members of the superfamily Portunoidea, or swimming crabs, so are more closely related to blue crabs Callinectes sapidus, although they do not have the flattened fifth leg…
Chaceon est un genre de crabes de la famille des Geryonidae. Il comporte 33 espèces actuelles et six fossiles. Liste des espèces Chaceon affinis (A.
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Distribution
More from the same family
deep-sea red crab
Chaceon affinis
GeryonidaeGéryon de Méditerranée (Le)
Geryon longipes
GeryonidaeGeryon trispinosus
Geryon trispinosus
GeryonidaeCoenophthalmus tridentatus
Coenophthalmus tridentatus
Geryonidaespiny lithode crab
Acantholithodes hispidus
Hapalogastridaeflat-browed crab
Achelous depressifrons
Portunidaeiridescent swimming crab
Achelous gibbesii
Portunidaeredhair swimming crab
Achelous ordwayi
Portunidae