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 > 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 > A male brown crab or edible crab, Cancer pagurus, from Guernsey. File No. 16-290
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sealord > A European lobster, Hommarus gammarus; an edible crab, Cancer pagurus, and two ormers, Haliotis tuberculata, from Guernsey waters.
Photographed in August 1994
File No. 0894 28 
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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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