What are the species of crabs in the sea?

Crabs are seafood that many people like to eat. Crabs can be divided into river crabs, lake crabs and sea crabs, and there are many kinds of crabs under these three categories, so what do you know about sea crabs? Next, let's get to know the crab species in the sea.

1. Swimming crab

Swimming crabs, called "white crabs" and "three-wart swimming crabs" in some places, are mainly distributed in Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Red Sea and most of the coasts of the Chinese mainland. The navel tip of male swimming crab is smooth and the shell is bluish. The female navel is villous and the shell is ochre or spotted.

2. Green crab

Green crab is a coastal crab living in warm sea areas, widely distributed in Indo-West Pacific region, including Japan, Ryukyu, Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, India, East Africa, South Africa, Australia and other places.

3. Frog crab

Frogs and crabs are mainly distributed in the East China Sea and South China Sea. Frog crab head breastplate is frog-shaped, growing up in a wide, very protuberant back, densely scaly thorns. The forehead is divided into 3 teeth, the middle tooth is large, triangular, and the lateral tooth is small.

4. Bread crab

Bread crabs mainly live on the sandy or sandy bottom with a depth of 30-100 meters, and are mainly distributed in the Pacific Ocean and Hong Kong waters. the breaded crab's head breastplate is light brown, the eye area has half annular Auburn markings, the claw ankle joint and the outside of the long section are covered with a reddish brown spot, and the tip of the foot is brown.

5. King Crab

King crab, also known as stone crab or rock crab, is a kind of crab that lives in cold waters. Because of its huge size, it is known as "king of crabs". King crab, as a kind of deep-sea crab, can live at a depth of 850m and the water temperature is between 2-5 ℃.

6. Flower crab

Flower crab gets its name because of its patterned shell. Flower crab sometimes refers specifically to orchid crab (male individual of distant sea swimming crab), but due to regional differences, it is also called Spotted Sea Crab (rusty crab) as flower crab. Flower crab contains a large number of essential proteins, fats, phospholipids, vitamins and other nutrients.

Sea crabs are scavengers. When eating, we first need to do a good job in repelling cold and sterilization of sea crabs. We need to avoid dead crabs and raw crabs. At the same time, special people such as colds, gallstones and pregnant women are not suitable to eat crabs.

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