Crab Fun Facts

Crab Fun Facts!

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Did you know that crabs...

...don't have backbones?
...are athropods?
...come from the order/subclass called "decapoda" meaning "ten legs"?
...have exoskeletons?
...can have a body as large as 1 foot across and a leg-span of 12 feet (Japanese spider crab)?
...sometimes climb trees (robber crab)?
...usually walk sideways (blue crab)?
...are vicious hunters?
...can produce as many as 2 million eggs (blue crab)?
...are called "zoea" when they are babies?
...go through metamorphosis when they are young?
...shed their exoskeletons in a process called "molting"?
...can regrow a leg that has been torn or bitten off?

The source I used to find this information is:
Ricciuti, Edward R. Crustaceans. Woodbridge, Connecticut: Blackbirch Press, 1994.

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