Kamchatka stone crab
Kamchatka stone crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus), also known as Hokkaido king crab, Alaska king crab, cod farm crab, northern king crab, belongs to a species of Paralithozoidae. Like the short-legged stone crab, Kamchatka stone crab is not a crab. , but a relative of the hermit crab, it only has eight legs instead of ten, and the other two legs have degenerated and shrank into the shell. Because its meat is very delicious and its appearance is very similar to crabs, it has become an important commercially caught crab species. This species is distributed in the cold water waters of the North Pacific from the Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk to the Bering Sea. King crab is a very large crab species, with a shell width of up to 28 centimeters and a length of 1.8 meters when its legs are fully extended. In recent years, the excessive growth of the king crab population in the Barents Sea has caused ecologists to pay attention to the local ecosystem. King crab was introduced to the area by...