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Flattop crab

A species of Petrolisthes
Scientific name : Petrolisthes eriomerus Genus : Petrolisthes

Flattop crab, A species of Petrolisthes
Botanical name: Petrolisthes eriomerus
Genus: Petrolisthes
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Flattop crab (Petrolisthes eriomerus) Photo By Eric A. Lazo-Wasem , used under CC-ZERO /Cropped and compressed from original

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Porcelain crabs differs from true crabs in having four rather than five pereiopods or walking limbs normally visible, and are more closely related to king crabs and hermit crabs. This small porcelain crab has a carapace up to 20 millimetres (0.79 in) wide with a rounded outline. The body, limbs and claws are flattened dorsally. There are a pair of long antennae just beside the eyes. The broad carpi of the claw-bearing chelipeds have parallel sides and are twice as long as they are wide. These features distinguishes it from the otherwise similar Petrolisthes cinctipes. The chelipeds are armed with claws usually of similar size which are half as long again as the length of the carpus and disproportionally large. The second and fourth pereiopods end in a pointed dactyl or moveable finger and the fifth is rudimentary and tucked under the abdomen. There are uropods attached to the abdomen which is long and is folded under the thorax. The limbs are covered in tufts of setae which are most noticeable when the animal is underwater. This porcelain crab is mainly reddish-brown or blueish-grey but the palps, some of the mouthparts and the knuckles of the cheliped dactyls are blue.
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Flattop crab (Petrolisthes eriomerus) Flattop crab (Petrolisthes eriomerus) Photo By Eric A. Lazo-Wasem , used under CC-ZERO /Cropped and compressed from original

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