🦋 Family

Oregoniidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Oregoniidae

Oregonia gracilis, the graceful decorator crab, is a camouflaging crab found in the North Pacific that decorates its back with other organisms.

Chionoecetes opilio, the snow crab, is a commercially important cold-water crab native to the North Pacific and Northwest Atlantic.

Hyas araneus, the great spider crab, is a large Atlantic crab noted for moulting and a single 1986 Antarctic record.

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