Carcinus Maenas

Carcinus Maenas

Common Name: Green crab, shore crab

Description: 

Shape and Size- Up to 60mm long and 90mm wide. They can reach up to 101mm wide in BC. Green crabs have five short teeth along the rim behind each eye and three undulations between the eyes.

Skeleton- exoskeleton

Symmetry- bilateral

Features- Colors vary from green to brown, grey or red, due to local environment factors.

Taxonomy: 

kingdom- Animalia 

Phylum- Arthropoda 

Subphylum- Crustacea

Class- Malacostraca 

Order- Decapoda

Family- Portunidae

Genus- Carcinus    

Ecology: 

Carcinus maenas can live in all types of protected and semi protected marine habitats including, mud, sand, or rock substrates. Females can produce up to 185,000 eggs. Carcinus maenas feed on many organisms, mostly bivalve molluscs, polychaetes, and small crustaceans.