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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Malacostracans
  5. Decapods
  6. Rock and Horse Crabs
  7. Rock Crabs

family

Rock Crabs

Cancridae

Includes
9 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Edible Crabs 3 native
  • Metacarcinus 3 native
  • Romaleon 2 native
  • Glebocarcinus 1 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native rock crabs All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Dungeness Crab Metacarcinus magister 15,583 observations
  • Pacific Rock Crab Romaleon antennarium 9,752 observations
  • Atlantic Rock Crab Cancer irroratus 8,141 observations
  • Jonah Crab Cancer borealis 3,969 observations
  • Furrowed Rock Crab Romaleon branneri 52 observations

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