The quadrangular hairy crab [1] [2] [3] [4] ( Latin Erimacrus isenbeckii ) is a species of crab that lives from the Avacha Bay and the western coast of Kamchatka to the Tsushima Strait and Sendai Bay from the low tide to a depth of 350 meters.
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The carapace and all legs of the crab are covered with short hairs. The width of the shell is almost equal to its length, reaches 10-12 cm.
It feeds on various small mollusks and crustaceans.
Notes
- ↑ Slizkin A. G., Fadeeva N. P., Katugin O. N. Detachment Decapoda // Plants and animals of the Sea of Japan: a short atlas-determinant . - Vladivostok: Publishing House of the Far Eastern University, 2007. - S. 222. - 488 p. - ISBN 978-5-7444-4196-6 -0
- ↑ Slizkin A., Safronov S. Commercial crabs of the Kamchatka waters . - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: "Northern pacific", 2000. - S. 42, 86-98. - 142 p.
- ↑ Rodin V.E., Slizkin A.G., Myasoedov V.I. et al. Guidelines for the study of decapod crustaceans Decapoda of the Far Eastern seas . - Vladivostok: Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, 1979. - P. 38, 52. - 59 p.
- ↑ Vinogradov L.G. Key to shrimp, crayfish and crabs of the Far East // Bulletin of the Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, 1950, Volume 33. - P. 343.
Links
- http://www.sakhalin.ru:8001/boomerang/sea/tbesprak5.htm (unavailable link)