sealord > This image shows a juvenile xanthid crab which was living in a large tide pool in Belle Greve Bay.  This individual is the smallest xanthid crab I have seen with a carapace width of 21.4 mm.  I believe it is Xantho incisus which is chocolate brown as an adult with black tipped claws.
File No. BG 090208 2964 
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sealord > This small but long-legged member of the spider crab family, Macropodia tenuirostris, entered one of Guernsey commercial fisherman Clive Brown's crab pots off Guernsey's south coast on the 27 September 2004.
File No.  270904 1-755
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sealord > The hairy crab, Pilumnus hirtellus, is commonly found under boulders and cobbles and in tide pools on the Guernsey seashore. This individual was found in Belle Greve Bay on teh 6 November 2006.
File No. 061106 29-866
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sealord > These two Xantho incisus crabs are the sole xanthid crabs inhabiting a small tide pool in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast.  The larger male has heavy claws and a carapace width of 56.2 mm. The smaller female has a carapace width of 42.6 mm.  Photographed on the 5 March 2007 with a Canon S80 compact digital camera with an underwater housing.
File No. 050307 6861
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sealord > The frontal region of a green shore crab, Carcinus maenas, from Grand Havre on the north coast of Guernsey.
Photographed on 14 April 2003
File No. 27-652
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sealord > A male brown crab or edible crab, Cancer pagurus, from Guernsey. File No. 16-290
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sealord > The broad clawed porcelain crab, Porcellana platycheles, on the seashore at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast.  Porcelain crab are suspension feeders using their mouth parts to filter food out of the water column.
File No. 10-651
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sealord > hermit crab, Pagurus bernhardus, in a flat periwinkle shell from Grand Havre on Guernsey's north coast.
File No. 15-653
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This image shows a juvenile xanthid crab which was living in a large tide pool in Belle Greve Bay. This individual is the smallest xanthid crab I have seen with a carapace width of 21.4 mm. I believe it is Xantho incisus which is chocolate brown as an adult with black tipped claws.
File No. BG 090208 2964
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This image shows a juvenile xanthid crab which was living in a large tide pool in Belle Greve Bay.  This individual is the smallest xanthid crab I have seen with a carapace width of 21.4 mm.  I believe it is Xantho incisus which is chocolate brown as an adult with black tipped claws.
File No. BG 090208 2964 
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
This image shows a juvenile xanthid crab which was living in a large tide pool in Belle Greve Bay. This individual is the smallest xanthid crab I have seen with a carapace width of 21.4 mm. I believe it is Xantho incisus which is chocolate brown as an adult with black tipped claws.
File No. BG 090208 2964
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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