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Warty crab

Eriphia verrucosa

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Field Notes

Description:

The carapace is thick and smooth. The claws are strong and have black fingers, one claw is generally larger than the other and is armed with rounded tubercles while the smaller claw bears sharper projections, arranged in lines.

Habitat:

Black and Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean where it lives among stones and seaweeds in shallow water along rocky coastlines up to a depth of 15 metres.

Notes:

In the Black Sea, it has decreased in numbers since the 1980s and is now listed in the Ukrainian Red Data Book of endangered species.

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