Sentences with phrase «crab species»

Crab species such as Lithodes spp. that invade northern shores are some of the organisms actually capitalising on the rising thermometer.

This crab species is called Pu Kai in Thai, which means «Chicken Crab» because it makes a noise like a young chick.

Just be careful, several hermit crab species get too large and aggressive for most tanks.

Reef lobsters will catch and eat small fish, and even some of the larger crab species will do the same.

I can't imagine keeping larger crab species — they are too predatory and destructive to the décor.

The research topic was a comparative study of the stomatogastric nervous system in related crab species Pugettia producta and Libinia emarginata

Such large aggregations are common among crab species and may be linked to reproduction.

The shape of the right, or major, pincer of this new hermit crab species is remarkable and unique with its shape and massive size when compared to the body.

This is the first report of its kind to offer a record of an arboreal crab — a crab species that lives in trees.

«A new coral - inhabiting gall crab species discovered from Indonesia and Malaysia.»

The new gall crab species discovered in this study is so far only known to inhabit Trachyphyllia corals.

Host specificity is observed in gall crabs, which means that a gall crab species inhabits one or several closely related coral species.

Here are some of the varieties of crab species / products we stock.

Not exact matches

Alaska Glacier Seafoods» products include five species of wild Alaskan salmon, salmon roe and caviar, halibut, king, Dungeness and tanner crab, rockfish, Pacific cod, sea cucumbers and sablefish.

Although you could substitute a different species of crab in this recipe, I highly recommend using blue crab.

The mobile app allows users to search by state, city and / or zip code as well as by species (crab, finfish, oysters and shrimp).

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Rob George might not go out and catch Alaska Red King Crab, and the other five species of Alaska Crab, but he's as close as you can get to the action without stepping on the deck.

In the Hudson Valley alone, invasive species include Eurasian milfoil, Asian clam, Zebra mussel, Didymo, Water chestnut, Chinese mitten crab, Brittle Naiad, White perch, and Alewife.

In recent years scientists have found that members of many species, from hermit crabs to rats to fish, have unique dispositions, demonstrating consistent behavioral differences over time and across varying situations.

In January they reported a host of unusual animals living near the vent, including a seven - armed sea star, a «ghostly white» octopus, and a new species of yeti crab, its underside covered in hairs.

A new species of hermit crab discovered in the shallow waters of southern Japan has been enjoying the perks of living like a peanut worm.

A symbiotic shift between such distantly related species as the worms and the crab is rare because organisms in a mutualistic relationship tend to be specialized and completely dependent on one other, says study coauthor Momoko Igawa, an ecologist at Kyoto University in Japan.

Diogenes heteropsammicola is the first hermit crab known to form a mutually beneficial relationship with two species of mobile corals called walking corals.

A new species of hermit crab, Diogenes heteropsammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis.

They find the fossil bed rich with dozens of species of marine invertebrates, such as crabs, snails, clams, sea urchins, large flat oysters and ammonites, as well as fish teeth and scales.

The nearly 400 creatures pictured here include roughly 200 species of fish, crabs, worms, shrimp, algae, snails and other marine invertebrates.

This approach allowed them to create a metabolic index for each species, which sets clearly defined limits for oxygen - breathing sea life: «Marine animals like eelpouts, rock crabs and Atlantic cod can only survive in environments with enough oxygen for them to increase their metabolism to between two and five times their resting metabolic rate if need be.

The crabs» arrival due to warming seas could deal a crushing blow to archaic species of starfish, sea spiders and ribbon worms at the Antarctic continental shelf

Cone snails and horseshoe crabs are exactly the kinds of species that people tend to dismiss, seeing no utility in them, no connection to human need.

Laidre suspects that the coconut crabs act as a «ruler of the atoll,» keeping ground - nesting bird species from finding homes on crab - filled islands.

«Not only does the level of protection provided vary by species, but the smallest crabs were defending the coral from coral - eating snails, a threat that larger crabs ignored.»

Turner and Rooker then looked for these fatty acid signatures in five species of invertebrates, such as zooplankton, shrimp, and crabs, and nine species of fish.

Small corals of other species sheltering in the shadow of the crab - coral symbiosis were also shielded from corallivore predation.

In one trial, the research team selectively removed the largest species of coral guard - crab, T. flavopunctata, from corals in the path of the army of sea stars and observed the effects.

In 2008 and 2009, four species of coral guard - crabs known to protect coral from predator sea stars were studied in a series of experiments to examine the effectiveness of different species and various sizes of crabs at repelling multiple corallivores.

Additional surveys revealed that the host corals were not the only species that benefitted from the diverse guard - crab ecosystem.

Crab, meanwhile, was among the least energy - intensive species to catch in the Dalhousie study, whereas the fuel needed to collect a ton of lobster swung wildly — ranging from 5.3 gallons (20 liters) per metric ton in Iceland to about 38 gallons (144 liters) in Maine to 271 gallons (1,025 liters) in Norway.

The researchers studied a species of sand flea (or mole crab)(Hippa testudinaria), which lives on the beaches of Ascension island.

Green crabs are aggressive and have colonized most of the world's coastlines, where they've chased away or killed native species.

Some of these species are herring, cod, anchovy, tuna, flounder, mullet, squid, shrimp, salmon, crab, lobster, oyster and scallops.

Commercial fishermen harvest a wide variety of animals, ranging from tuna, cod, carp, and salmon to shrimp, krill, lobster, clams, squid, and crab, in various fisheries for these species.

Recreational fishing and crabbing on Cape Cod have removed most of the native predators that used to eat a common native species called the purple marsh crab (Sesarma reticulatum).

It's not quite redemption, but one of most loathed invasive species in the world — the European green crab (Carcinus maenas)-- has had a surprisingly positive effect on an ecosystem.

Species: The bird - dung crab spider (Genus Phrynarachne) Habitat: Undergrowth at forest fringes in South - East Asia

For instance, he says, gender restrictions on Dungeness crab have led to very high harvest rates among males of the species and may need to be rethought.

One example could be the Red King Crab, a species that would thrive in the Arctic.

«Sea urchins, little tiny crabs, marine worms live down in there,» along with many other species, Gaylord said.

Lead author Rich Brill, a fishery biologist with NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service and adjunct faculty at VIMS, says «The notion that blue crabs are relatively intolerant of oxygen - poor waters was counterintuitive, because this species often occupies estuarine environments that can become hypoxic even in the absence of human activities.»

A fascinatingly flawed new book, Tense Bees and Shell - Shocked Crabs, demonstrates that hunting down consciousness in other species is tough going