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Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Scientific name: Cancer productus

Taxonomy: Kingdom Animalia → Phylum Arthropoda → Subphylum Crustacea → Superclass Multicrustacea → Class Malacostraca → Subclass Eumalacostraca → Superorder Eucarida → Order Decapoda → Suborder Pleocyemata → Infraorder Brachyura → Section Eubrachyura → Subsection Heterotremata → Superfamily Cancroidea → Family Cancridae → Genus Cancer

Common name: Red Rock Crab
Locations: Eastern Pacific
Group: Marine LifeInvertebratesCrabs

Red rock crabs have black tipped claws and relatively short antennae, and 5 shell teeth projecting forward between the eyes.

Their undersides and walking leg tips glow under blue light.

Juveniles are varied in color.

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Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Tiny juvenile, 1/2" across
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Mating
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Tiny juvenile, less than 1" long
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Eating mussels
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
Cancer productus (Red Rock Crab)
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