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granular claw crab

Oedignathus inermis

Classification

Oedignathus inermis, commonly known as the granular claw crab, paxillose crab, or tuberculate nestling lithode crab, is a species of king crab in the subfamily Hapalogastrinae. It is found off the Pacific coasts of the United States and Canada, from California to the Chukchi Sea. It is also distributed in the Russian Far East and disjunctly around the coasts of Japan.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 167Canada · 38