Shore crab, Carcinus maenas, from Lillebaelt, Kongeborgaarden, Denmark, North Sea.

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This species has a wide distribution across the North-western Atlantic and can be found in shallow waters on hard, soft substrate and sea grass meadows up to 70 m deep. Its native distribution has been extended as it became one of the worst invasive species across the world, reaching from the eastern Pacific down to is sometimes caught ans sold on fish markets for food, but commercial not unimportant. feed on smaller mollusks, crustaceans and other invertebrates. their coloration can vary in shades of green to grey with a mostly orange belly.

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Location: Lillebaelt, Kongeborgaarden, Denmark
Photo credit: © Rasmus Loeth Petersen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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