. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . tolighter color in the back. The color of the legs and under surface of theanimal is yellowish. The claws are toothed above and ribbed at thesides. It inhabits sandy bottoms below tide-mark and is the largest andmost important edible crab of the western coast. C. productus, the red crab. This species, like the preceding one, isof large size and inhabits the western coast from Alaska to the Gulf ofCalifornia. The carapace is four and a half inches in length, from fiveto seven i
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . tolighter color in the back. The color of the legs and under surface of theanimal is yellowish. The claws are toothed above and ribbed at thesides. It inhabits sandy bottoms below tide-mark and is the largest andmost important edible crab of the western coast. C. productus, the red crab. This species, like the preceding one, isof large size and inhabits the western coast from Alaska to the Gulf ofCalifornia. The carapace is four and a half inches in length, from fiveto seven in breadth, and somewhat elliptical in outline. The teeth onthe anterior margin are distinctly separate in the adult, but in theyoung appear as wrinklings of the edge of the carapace. The posteriormargins are concave. In color the animal is dark red above and yellow-ish beneath in the adults, but variable in the young, sometimes beingyellow spotted with red, or banded with red and yellow. It inhabitsrocky shores. This is an edible crab, but is not taken for the markets,C. magister supplying all demands. CRABS 279. >«.. < ,1,11-11- iimditctus, the red crab ; male.
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