| In addition to the striped bass, the Atlantic croaker, or hardhead, is also a major predator of juvenile blue crabs. |
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| Many species, including lobsters, crayfish, barnacles, and crabs are important to human economies, some very much so. |
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| Watermen believe that only God and nature can determine the abundance or scarcity of crabs. |
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| Only a couple of animals are resident on the beach itself, ghost crabs and beach fleas, and they both burrow into the sand to survive. |
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| Inside the open area were baskets of various fresh fish, tiger prawns, large mud crabs, clams and other shellfish. |
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| They grow to an impressive size and pass the time cracking open hard-shelled creatures like crabs and urchins between their fearsome teeth. |
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| As well as the crabs, there will be other animals typically found in mangrove habitats, such as mudskippers and four-eyed fish. |
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| As it decays, it ties up dissolved oxygen, eventually causing creatures like shrimp, fish, crabs, and octopuses to suffocate. |
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| Dogfish roam the area looking for prey and large crabs bury themselves in small crevasses and sand pockets. |
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| You can find urchins and starfish on the rocky ledges and brittle stars and edible crabs on the sandy bottom. |
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| Kids also enjoy the tide pool touch tank filled with sea stars, urchins, and horseshoe crabs. |
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| They made her a gift of the round breadboard and on it Andrew placed a crusty loaf which the baker had given him in return for two crabs. |
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| Lobsters, crabs, prawns, bay bugs, freshwater and marine crayfish all belong to the phylum Arthropoda, the group which also contains insects. |
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| Land crabs, river crayfish, opossum, agouti, and fish are caught where available. |
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| On holidays, it is common for everyone to fish for crawfish in the mountain streams or to catch land crabs to add to the evening meal. |
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| There are live crabs snapping at children, lobster tanks, and giant glass aquariums with huge fish floating sadly in limbo. |
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| But crabs and other animals that periodically shed their hard shells, or exoskeletons, face just such a predicament. |
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| It has jaws that apparently can crush stones so that even crabs are just like mincemeat to it. |
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| One could make the argument that fans simply lost interest in watching him win matches with Boston crabs. |
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| The Shovel-Nosed Ray can reach two meters in length and is quite harmless, feeding only on small crabs and shellfish. |
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| Women are abducted while gathering crabs and shellfish at night by torchlight. |
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| There are obviously plenty of shellfish and crabs, too, because I saw giant puffers and octopus and none looked short of a meal. |
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| I actually like rocks because you can find lots of stuff in them like mussels and crabs and shellfish. |
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| The identity of the branchiobdellidans found on Blue crabs from the Gulf of Mexico remain unauthenticated. |
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| We collected 17 purple shore crabs from the same sites to use as predators on the porcelain crabs. |
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| As we walked along the shoreline, ghost crabs danced among the trove of shells deposited by the ebbing tide. |
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| Black bears may be seen best by boat in May and June, as they forage for crabs and fish along shorelines at low tide. |
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| A night dive on the house reef revealed spiny lobsters and red crabs, morays, scorpionfish and lionfish. |
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| Their tricuspid teeth are especially adapted to feed on organisms with hard shells such as clams, snails, crabs and shrimp. |
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| The new display will also include tropical hermit crabs, crawfish, horseshoe crabs, and other species. |
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| Anemones, bubble corals, soft tree corals, sea cucumbers and cushion stars harboured tiny shrimps and crabs, while seahorses lurked among algae. |
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| I've sunken into a crab hole and nearly drop the lunch bucket of snails and crabs. |
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| They had oysters, sea urchins, conch shells, tulip shells, starfish, and crabs either attached or living on them. |
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| Conch are the favorite food for lobster, sting rays, tulip shells, crabs, octopus, turtles and porcupine fish. |
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| The region around these deep sea black smokers teems with all manner of life, including exotic crabs and giant tube worms. |
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| Crabeater seals prefer to eat a shrimp-like animal called krill rather than crabs. |
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| The women are pretty ratty on Daph for drawing the crabs, and so is her boss for that matter. |
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| He and his men no longer cared, however, now that Murdoch's struggles could not draw the crabs on them. |
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| The sergeant believed local treachery was brewing and that my white skin would draw the crabs. |
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| This old car has had a decent hit on the right rear quarter and crabs its way down the road. |
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| It seems that I have severe cases of genital warts, the clap, crabs, herpes and syphillis. |
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| Commonly called crabs, these lice occur on the skin and hair of your pubic areas and on eyelashes. |
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| I fear lung disease, heart disease, cancer, losing control of my bladder and bowels, paralysis and crabs in my underpants. |
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| Pubic lice or crabs are unpleasant, but once diagnosed are thankfully easily treated. |
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| I believe the first use of pubic wigs was in ancient Egypt as the only cure that they had at the time for crabs. |
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| Shining our torches onto the sand reveals thousands of hermit crabs scuttling from the light. |
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| Young fish, young crabs and molting crabs have lost shelter and refuge from their predators. |
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| In fact, more tasty blue crabs are caught and sold than any other Hudson River species. |
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| Male horseshoe crabs have two mating tactics that are associated with phenotype. |
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| Generic placement of fossil spider crabs is often difficult because definitive criteria are rarely available for study. |
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| You should move to Florida and hunt crabs on the beach all day in the nude. |
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| There really is something very unbecoming about grown men chasing crabs on beaches alone. |
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| Scientists found male fiddler crabs often aid their neighbors when intruders threaten to move in. |
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| It can be found feeding on crabs, shrimps, clams, scallops, abalone and small fish. |
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| Otters mostly feed on invertebrates such as urchins, squid, octopus, crabs, abalone and other mollusks. |
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| She set up a trading company, selling Australian lobsters, abalone and king crabs all over the world. |
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| The types of seafood they eat include mussels, scallops, clams, crabs, lobsters, abalone, and sea urchins. |
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| Local marine reserves offer tide pools full of starfish, crabs, mussels, abalone, and sea anemones. |
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| They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs. |
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| In Asia the species is known to host parasitic lung flukes, which can infect humans if the crabs are eaten undercooked. |
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| Hairy crabs would be attracted by the light and crawl upwards during the flood tide, where they would be trapped after the ebb. |
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| Lobsters and crabs, as well as some mollusks, worms, and fish species, use carotenoid colorants. |
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| The Javan rhinoceros often lies in streams, where small fish and crabs feed on the insects that live on its skin. |
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| Harpa species, and probably also Morum species, live in sand and feed on small crabs. |
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| You can also get pomfret and sardines and prawns and crabs in some unusual dishes, which make good use of masalas of the west coast variety. |
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| Alligators eat you, bees sting, crabs pinch, riding a dromedary makes you dizzy. |
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| In 2003 the two nations agreed to double the total annual fishing quota to 800,000 crabs. |
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| The ocean would rush away, leaving the sandy beach full of crabs and clams, seaweed and driftwood, shells and stones. |
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| Enjoy exotic soups and then dig into lobsters, crabs, pomfret or prawns, if you favour seafood, for health or other reasons. |
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| We attributed the effect of predator exclusion primarily to juvenile green crabs and fish. |
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| Swimming onto the heavy granite sand, you will find dragonets, plaice and wandering hermit crabs. |
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| Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, cockles, winkles, whelks and crabs were collected for food from the estuaries and sea-shores. |
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| Each is a snapping gaggle of legs and claws from which Charlie carefully extracts a large number of Dungeness crabs. |
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| Elevated numbers of Dungeness crabs may also have contributed to the unusually large number of otters in Monterey Bay. |
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| Salmon, halibut, and Dungeness crabs still are caught by local boats, but many harbor towns are places in transition. |
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| A good deal of time is spent trying to catch shrimps, crabs and small flatties for the bucket all to be released. |
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| They proceed to describe what two members of the Oregon Fish Commission saw when watching two Dungeness crabs mate in an aquarium. |
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| The majority of trials were conducted with purple shore crabs, the most abundant predatory species co-occurring with porcelain crabs. |
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| Living horseshoe crabs feed on molluscs, worms, and other tasty and nutritious marine invertebrates. |
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| Medium-sized terrapins still relied on small snails but apportioned more of their diet among large snails, blue crabs, and fiddler crabs. |
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| The right season for crab and hot pot is autumn and winter, when crabs are fertile and plump with a tight texture and hot pot dispels the chill. |
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| Fiddler crabs, like their arthropod cousins the insects, have compound eyes. |
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| Crustaceans that have apposition compound eyes as adults, like some crabs, may simply continue to use the larval design with few modifications. |
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| Then, to his horror, and no doubt incredulity, a dozen or so crabs appear and march toward him. |
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| Spiny king crabs prowl the deep seafloor for live food, eating other crabs and sea stars. |
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| There are good kingies, and the crabs are starting to show up in the Richmond. |
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| In 1881, a thunderstorm in Worcester brought down tons of periwinkles and hermit crabs. |
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| These findings are backed up by our work on behavioral responses and feeding behavior of Dungeness crabs in low salinity. |
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| Enormous coconut crabs live in the trees and giant monitor lizards stalk in the undergrowth. |
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| She had to keep the kitchen spotless as every night giant coconut crabs came down from the palm trees to see what they could find. |
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| While Brits eat turkey at Christmas, Spaniards look forward to festive feasts of clams, crabs, cockles, mussels, octopus and goose barnacles. |
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| They also are in competition for food with the swamp ichneumon, which preys on crabs. |
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| Male fiddler crabs have one claw much larger than the other, which they use to signal to each other. |
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| But then Johnson saw the red claw and other characteristics of female crabs. |
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| In some species, large males may use their major claw to kill smaller crabs. |
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| The section contains details of law violations ranging from possession of undersized Dungeness crabs to driving under the influence. |
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| Opportunistic feeders, they surface-feed, gulping small schooling fish, pelagic crabs, and swarms of krill when encountered. |
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| European green crabs in their natural habitat are smaller than those in invaded habitat. |
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| Pinnotheres ostreum, and P. pisum, pea crab, are remarkably small crabs which live out their lives inside the shells of oysters or mussels. |
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| Velvet-backed swimming crabs scuttled around me in their typically aggressive manner. |
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| The periwinkle in turn is preyed upon by blue crabs and diamondback terrapins. |
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| This environmentally protected area is home to turtles, crabs, dolphins, and alligators. |
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| The number of eggs depredated by ghost crabs was estimated by counting those eggs that had a small circular section of the eggshell removed. |
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| Over the years we have bought lobsters, prawns, crabs and scallops on the shore outside the house, direct from the boats that landed them. |
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| If you want to see massive iguanas, giant land crabs or the largest red-footed booby colony in the western hemisphere, this is where to come. |
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| This phenomenon has been particularly thoroughly studied in land crabs, which often occur in habitats containing both seawater and freshwater. |
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| However, there are also swimming crabs and land crabs, and the range of sizes and configurations is huge. |
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| In September, the crevices in the wall are crammed with hundreds of mating pairs of velvet swimming crabs. |
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| And they serve the intense fish broth separately from the fish, which includes rascasse, rouget, langouste and tiny little crabs. |
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| Colin hand-dives for scallops when he has time, and a friend's creels supply us with crabs and lobsters, crayfish and langoustines. |
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| Velvet-backed swimming crabs were numerous, and edible crabs nestled into the anemones, as did small pollack. |
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| Paul delves into rock-pools in search of crabs and Helen accidentally steps into a rock pool and gets wet feet. |
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| Several clam species were observed on the sandier flats, and small crabs, amphipods, and isopods were available on the marsh surface. |
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| Several of them, like many others, became self-employed in raising shrimps and crabs, but excessive rain this year made this totally profitless. |
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| Its primary food consists of sardines, anchovies, small mackerel, crabs, shrimp and squid. |
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| Some crabs actively seek anemones and sponges as epibionts that may be used for camouflage, and in some cases, as an emergency meal. |
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| At the highest speeds, ghost crabs, cockroaches and ants exhibit aerial phases. |
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| Red-eyed swimming crabs glared at us and shrimps, or the vivid orange and blue markings of a squat lobster, were picked out by our torch beams. |
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| He summarized the morphological characters typically attributed to swimming crabs. |
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| Among the fronds are swimming crabs, hermits, prawns and well-camouflaged scorpionfish. |
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| Keep in mind that once it rains, the crabs and fish will probably move more towards the entrance as the salt content upstream lessens. |
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| He was seven, sleeping after a family picnic of dressed crabs and choc ices. |
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| They have collaborated on research, most recently studying territoriality in dragonflies and aggression and foraging strategies in ghost crabs. |
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| Examples include territorial defense and foraging behavior of many lizards, birds, rodents, and migratory locomotion in ghost crabs. |
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| Below, crabs sidestepped on the rocks and all kinds of fish darted by, making the snorkelling superb. |
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| Studies show the crabs can also cause serious damage by burrowing into banks and earthworks along rivers. |
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| Recently researchers have discovered that bay rays rarely eat oysters, and that crabs were destroying the oyster beds. |
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| Coastal wetlands are also essential for important shellfish including shrimp, blue crabs, oysters and clams. |
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| That day, I had flounders, sea trout, roach, dace, crabs, grey mullet, bream and bass out of the same swim. |
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| The only obstacle in her way were the large robber crabs everywhere in this area of the course. |
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| Ride a historic shipjack or end the day with a sumptuous meal of Maryland crabs. |
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| During heavy rains the streets and even houses get flooded with knee-deep sullage water, bringing along with it snakes, crabs and insects. |
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| Toys made of rubber in the shape of snakes, lizards, chameleons, scorpions and crabs are selling like hot cakes. |
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| Hermit crabs want to live free in the sunshine, not bottled up in aquariums. |
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| Tour seven aquariums, housing such species as Atlantic stingrays, sea horses, crabs, blennies, flounder, and puffer fish. |
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| Frogs, crabs, molluscs, aquatic insects, and larvae are some of the items included in their diets. |
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| Oysters, sturgeon, striped bass and crabs were harvested by the Canarsee Indians, and the surrounding land yielded deer and fowl. |
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| Other well-managed and abundant wild species include striped bass, Pacific halibut, squid, and crabs. |
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| During my study periods, the blue crab were observed in all the habitats, while the two less-mobile crabs were not found in the mud flat. |
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| We were treated to black bears, river otters, sturgeon, horseshoe crabs, and stinkpot turtles. |
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| Copper rockfish are opportunistic carnivores that feed mainly on organisms present near the ocean floor, usually crabs, mollusks and other fish. |
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| There are many obstacles for turtle hatchlings, such as crabs, birds and many other predators in the ocean. |
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| Studies of fouled arthropods include horseshoe crabs, isopods, stomatopods, lobsters, and true crabs. |
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| Small edible crabs cling to cracks in the rock, but it seems too exposed for larger crustaceans such as lobsters. |
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| Common lobsters, edible crabs, velvet swimming crabs, shore crabs and hermit crabs were common. |
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| Eumalacostraca is the group that contains most of the animals the general public recognize as crustaceans, such as shrimp, crabs, lobsters. |
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| Small potholes may hold water long enough for crabs to molt, but not to undergo larval development. |
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| You can sometimes find large starfish, edible crabs and squat lobsters here. |
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| Its sheer walls provide homes for edible crabs and squat lobsters and at one point mussels. |
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| Polysaccharides are also used in the shells of such crustaceans as crabs and lobsters. |
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| Examination of the sterna and abdomina of these crabs permitted identification of mature and immature males and females. |
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| Next, he would eat two or three dozen Lynnhavens, the largest of oysters, and a dozen hard-shell crabs, claws and all. |
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| The galatheid crabs had particularly high reflectances, relatively spectrally neutral on the small carapaces, and quite red on the large legs. |
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| Only crabs with more than 95 percent of the dorsal carapace exposed were selected. |
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| But when I walk out from the shore, tiny purple crabs run for cover at my first step. |
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| The Ghost crabs are named for their translucent bodies, and they are well camouflaged against the sand. |
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| You can have sea bass, lobster, herring, turbot, sturgeon cusks, haddock, mullet, eels, crabs, oysters and mussels. |
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| Scallops, oysters, and the eelgrass beds that provided nurseries for crabs and fish have disappeared. |
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| The best bait for crabs is the frame of a fish that has been filleted, eg mullet, luderick, bream etc. |
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| Reports of dead lugworms, crabs, flatfish and dogfish have been made to the Marine Institute by local fishermen in Donegal. |
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| From crabs and snails to frisky sea lions, this is one of the most diverse and active habitats on the planet. |
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| Marine scientists have found evidence of similar patterns among shoreline species like crabs, crustaceans and seaweed. |
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| Oysters, clams and other shellfish thrive in bays and inlets, as do many species of crabs and fish. |
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| Organisms as diverse as phytoplankton, corals, crabs and molluscs lay down limestone or calcium carbonate skeletons. |
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| We dig for sand crabs, boogie-board, have a sandcastle-building contest and always seem to find cute guys who want to play Frisbee with us. |
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| As we walked large white sand crabs scuttled away to their holes, whiskers waving. |
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| Huge crabs are merely dressed, squid is fried and served with mayonnaise, sole is grilled and glorious Whitstable oysters come as they are. |
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| A keen gardener got the shock of her life when a freak storm rained 20 crabs down on her. |
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| Black crabs or rock crabs, if you can catch them, have been attracting some nice size tarwhine around the rocks as well. |
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| In the deep sea, where it's too dark for photosynthesis, the water teems with crabs, fish, jellyfish, mollusks, and other life-forms. |
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| Land crabs are nocturnal scavengers that climb trees, enter holes and are the invertebrate ecological equivalent of rats. |
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| A few horse-drawn cabs loomed black in the street, half-broken and loose-jointed like crippled, dozing crabs or cockroaches. |
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| Scavenging crabs clean the bones, as do the smaller invertebrates such as the tiny springtails that live in the sand. |
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| The crabs, which are natural scavengers, are being fed with dead sand eels and sprats. |
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| Several large edible crabs have burrowed under the mast and others live inside the hollow structure. |
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| Depending on their size, they are home to spiny lobsters, arrow crabs and a wide assortment of blennies. |
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| Under the ice, it looked pretty much as it might in the UK, with lots of kelp and spider crabs, but the visibility was stunning. |
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| In the market I see people grinding up thumb-joint sized crabs in a pestle and mortar to make a vile green-brown mash. |
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| We talked and examined the barrels and plastic buckets filled with fish, crabs and shiny squid. |
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| Although they are terrestrial creatures, these crabs descend to the sea to spawn, and their larvae live in salt water for a time. |
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| At night paddle crabs roam the sand, breaking into thick-shelled bivalves like the tuatua and the Venus shell. |
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| In addition to consuming leaf litter and propagules, grapsoid crabs also browse directly on mangrove vegetation. |
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| We found ten different species of nudibranch, as well as sea spiders, edible crabs, swimming crabs and sea hares. |
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| Hulking guys serve up platters of prawns, steamed crabs, and just-shucked oysters glistening in brine. |
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| However, a friend had the brilliant idea to prepare soft shell crabs, which he did for us one evening. |
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| Have you tried to buy crabs, whiting, grey sole, ling or squid on the West Coast, where most of it comes in? |
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| Poseidon is an old-fashioned prudent God that will punish any naughty humans with a blight of bothersome crabs in their nether regions. |
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| A small bird with a broken wing, left behind by its mates, struggles to escape a crowd of hungry crabs alongside a deserted seashore. |
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| Fish life is limited, although there are usually lots of crabs and sea spiders scuttling around. |
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| As their body size increases, the crabs shed their too small exoskeleton. |
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| Many sea otters died from being infected by a parasitic acanthocephalan worm found in sand crabs the sea otters ate when other more natural prey was scarce. |
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| Here we will find acorn barnacles, mussels, crabs, and sea stars. |
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| They are an active predator feeding mainly on whitefish such as whiting, codling and haddock, also small rays, flatfish, dogfish and even scallops and crabs. |
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| So the 10m ropes provide an ideal home where they can remain suspended above the seabed and out of reach of starfish, crabs, whelks and other predators. |
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| The term exoskeleton refers to the hard outer shell found on insects and certain animals like grasshoppers and crabs. |
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| It's amazing what a few old guys can do with a little bit of charm and a whole lot of crabs. |
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| She was stranded and died on Nikumaroro Island, and her remains were carried off by crabs. |
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| The best way to enjoy the crabs is to play up their crackly edible shell with a batter coating. |
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| British Columbia's nutrient-rich waters support a multitude of life including kelp forests, nudibranchs, anemones, wolf fish, king crabs and giant octopus. |
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| So now I'm standing up to my shins in water that's being stained a sort of pungent reddy brown, and all around small fish and crabs are fighting one another to eat the eyes. |
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| There were lots of little crabs scuttling around behind the mangroves and on the tidal flats there were wrybill, plump little birds that have beaks skewed to the right. |
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| One can also see a lovely section of flowering crabs and laburnums. |
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| For example, horseshoe crabs and lampshells both occur in shallow marine environments, where many predators and competitors exist, particularly since the Cretaceous Period. |
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| Free-swimming larvae of land crabs eat plankton in the ocean. |
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| The Carcineretidae is a heterogeneous group of reptant and natatory crabs. |
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| We saw crabs, eels, batfish, unicornfish, pufferfish, boxfish, lionfish, squirrelfish, racoonfish, butterflyfish, parrotfish and angelfish, to name just a few. |
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| Becker and Wahl, in a series of experiments to test for antifouling mechanisms in crabs, concluded that behavior such as burrowing played the largest role in antifouling. |
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| So I wrote to the author, complimenting him on the well-written article, and then challenging him on his statements about the antiquity of horseshoe crabs. |
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| A typical object for a scholar's study, lifecast bronze crabs survive in some numbers and are often stated to have been made in sixteenth-century Padua. |
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| Down below, tiny fiddler crabs raced along the mud, the males each waving an oversized pincer as minnows and larger fish riffled the water's surface. |
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| Barnacles are crustaceans like crabs and shrimps but, because of their appearance, until the 19th century they were thought to be molluscs like limpets and whelks. |
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| Both spiney lobsters and hermit crabs have been observed attacking gastropods in this fashion and both produce the distinctive notched gastropod remains. |
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| An off-market day, the rough-hewn, mangrove-slatted tables, usually weighted with fish, crabs, lemongrass, chilies, cassava, and other local produce, are empty. |
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| Also, we're one of the few stand alone eateries in India to offer lobsters and crabs which was important because the burra sahibs were partial to them! |
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| But not many came this way it was to far out from any forms or life but the sand crabs that were running around, it looked like they were playing a child's game of tag. |
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| Popular along the southeast coast of the United States and especially in Louisiana, shrimp or crab boil spice mix is used, not surprisingly, for boiling shrimp and crabs. |
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| White shrimp, blue crabs, sea trout and other fish require brackish water to reproduce, and the mouth of the Rio Grande was one of the few places they could find it. |
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| While blue whales may occasionally feed on pelagic crabs and small fishes, their diet is almost exclusively euphausiid shrimps commonly called krill. |
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| Birds in coastal areas eat crabs and other aquatic creatures. |
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| The megalopas return in large swarms to the nearshore waters and estuaries in the spring, where they metamorphose into first instar juvenile crabs. |
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| Within the wreck are conger, lobsters, edible and swimming crabs, packs of prawns, cuttlefish, topknots, flounders, scorpionfish and a host of blennies and shannies. |
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| The male crabs shed their shells twice a year, in autumn and spring. |
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| And after a satisfying day of bird-watching, treat yourself to a scrumptious meal of Maryland's famous blue crabs, oysters, or a freshly caught fish. |
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| Also, hermit crabs commonly kept as pets molt and shed their exoskeleton. |
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| In contrast, the diet of neritic predators such as the bonnethead shark from southwest Florida is dominated by crustaceans, principally shallow water blue crabs. |
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| Graceful moray eels, deadly great white sharks, playful porpoises, and tiny crabs show up along the way, all to the enchanting tune of Serra's bouncy music score. |
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| Liparid snailfish in the genus Careproctus extrude eggs through an anteriorly positioned ovipositor into the branchial chambers of large lithodid crabs. |
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| Fisheries managers apply a continuous growth model in their management of snow crab, which assumes that male crabs increase in size throughout their lifespan. |
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| With each seasonal death of the marsh, some of the carp, crabs, and crayfish succeed in escaping to the brackishness of Sonoma Creek, from which they migrated. |
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| Birds, fish and mammals feast on the barnacles, snails, urchins and other animals that vary from tiny shore crabs to spectacular giant green anemones. |
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| These in turn provide fertile spawning grounds for crabs, shrimps, scallops, cod, plaice, bass, sole and herring, and so are vital to maintaining fisheries. |
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| The crabs twitched and blew frothy bubbles, showing off their freshness with an occasional contraction of a pincer, as they lolled numbly in a shallow ice-filled tray. |
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| It's a food chain that ranges from giant fields and plumes of the basic building block bacteria to curious octopuses and swarms of shrimp and crabs and red-tipped worms. |
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| Thus far there are no serious signs of predation by crabs or starfish. |
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| Otters also are known to eat crabs, octopus, squid, sea stars, and fish. |
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| But human harvest of horseshoe crabs has reduced the egg surplus. |
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| Flies, crabs, and other arthropods have compound eyes in which many, sometimes hundreds, of individual ommatidia, or unit eyes, gather visual information. |
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| The dish was placed behind the one-way mirror of an observation chamber such that the observer could see the crabs, but the crabs could not see the observer. |
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| Pholeus bifurcatus burrow system corresponds somewhat with modern burrows produced by crabs, such as the stone crab Menippe mercenaria or Goneplax rhomboids. |
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| Other creatures you might find are velvet-backed swimming crabs. |
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| Nestling in these were butterfish and velvet-backed swimming crabs. |
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| The shelves and fissures which bisect these rocks are home to edible crabs, velvet swimming crabs, prawns, squat lobsters and the occasional large common lobster. |
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| Though we were actually searching for coconut crabs, this encounter became a moment I will always remember amongst the other riches of this majestic island. |
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| Blue crystal-clear waters teem with game fish such as bonefish, permit, and tarpon, which have grown accustomed to a rich diet of shrimp and crabs. |
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| In September, the crevices in the wall are crammed with hundreds of mating pairs of velvet swimming crabs, exciting swarms of fish into a feeding frenzy. |
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| But Madagascar isn't entirely mantas and sharks, crabs and pipefish. |
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| The scientists discovered that crabs of diverse sizes feed on vast numbers of zooplankton that are killed by toxic sulphurous plumes emitted from underwater vents. |
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| We found tiny cowries on the soft corals and red spider crabs on the fans. |
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| Eastern populations eat numerous horseshoe crabs during migration. |
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| Not so many people collect the crabs today as it's so labour-intensive. |
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| Large edible crabs are everywhere, mainly females that are here to spawn. |
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| There are also sand crabs burrowing in the sand, which make good bait too. |
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| Same recipe used externally for crabs, lice, and all external parasites. |
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| Snakes, crocodiles, and crabs scurry and swim about the forest floor. |
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| Laboratory studies examining the distance that ghost crabs can run before fatigue provide a wellstudied example with application to natural behavior. |
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| During the coming months there will be many political prostitutes and opportunists emerging like crabs from the muddy filth of deception and greed. |
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| The nonindigenous green crabs are the largest common intertidal predators. |
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| Miller said he also hopes to study the relationship, if any, between Doliodus problematicus and giant, ancient sea scorpions, a type of eurypterid related to horseshoe crabs. |
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| The other, sillier spot presented a beachful of anthropomorphic crabs starting a Bud-centric version of a cargo cult. |
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| The lady crab rather fancied him, particularly as she noticed he walked straight instead of sideways like other crabs. |
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| Because red king crabs can autotomize injured legs, crabs with a fresh autotomy were classified separately from those with other leg injuries. |
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| Found throughout the Pacific Ocean, king crabs are among the world's largest crustaceans and can weigh more than 10kgs. |
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| Other fish, prawns and crabs come into the Lake on the king tides and swim up to the warm backwaters to breed. |
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| Shortly thereafter, colonist George Howe was killed by a native while searching alone for crabs in Albemarle Sound. |
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| Fecundity of red king crabs off Kodiak Island, Alaska, and an initial look at observer agreement of clutch fullness. |
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| We had seen armfuls of crabs emerging from beneath the sand on the beach. |
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| Rare fossils include an annelid worm, two crabs, a spiny lobster, a ratfish, a ray, unidentified bony fishes, and reptiles reported here. |
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| This is the place for skimming stones, racing crabs and fishing for tiddlers in the rockpools. |
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| During June, July, and August of 2010, divers used quadrats to estimate densities of crabs and worm tubes. |
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| Because hermits are decapods and do not live within their own shells, they are not considered to be true crabs. |
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| The assay consists of a colorless substrate and a proenzyme extracted from amoebocyte cells in the blood of horseshoe crabs. |
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| Sir David Attenborough looks at African wild dogs in Zambia, chimps in the Sahara and tiny tropical hermit crabs searching for shells. |
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| But he seemed to develop web feet as he battled water spiders, eels and mud crabs to win eight out of eight stars for the camp. |
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| Traditional examples of carcinisation in the Anomura are most celebrated among hermit crabs, but certainly are not limited to this group. |
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| An Armada of sand crabs hefting a landlocked ship on their backs. |
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| Restaurant August... serves contemporary French cuisine prepared with Louisiana ingredients like buster crabs, shrimp and oysters. |
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| The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden. |
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| Marine life is known to exist in the estuary, with seals, crabs, and some whales reported. |
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| Other abundant nonfishery species were mud crabs, portly spider crab, blennies, pinfish, and oyster toadfish. |
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| Philippine waters also sustain the cultivation of pearls, crabs, and seaweeds. |
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| In addition to the thousands of species of fish, the river supports crabs, algae, and turtles. |
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| It is rarer to find paired edible crabs, and potential peelers need to be tested. |
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| Young Atlantic halibut individuals feed on crustaceans such as crabs and prawns. |
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| The population consists of crabs, spiders, scorpions, sand fleas, beetles, large roaches, and many species of birds. |
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| Brown bears living near coastal regions will regularly eat crabs and clams. |
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| Archaeologists have speculated that the group was searching the mudflats for seafood such as lugworms, shellfish, crabs, and seaweed. |
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| Iridescent swimming crab, dusky flounder, inshore lizardfish, spot, brown shrimp, longspine swimming crabs, and other bycatch made up the rest. |
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| Depending on what is available it will eat small crabs, fish, crayfish, grasshoppers and other large insects, lizards and amphibians. |
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| The young cod then move to the seabed and change their diet to small benthic crustaceans, such as isopods and small crabs. |
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| Fishing dredges are used to collect various species of clams, scallops, oysters or crabs from the seabed. |
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| Fishing dredges are used as a technique for catching certain species of edible clams and crabs. |
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| They are often of vital importance to migratory birds, as well as certain species of crabs, mollusks and fish. |
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| Solid lines represent the sexable crabs, and open circles represent males and solid circles females. |
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| These snappers will also eat live shrimp, crabs and an assortment of fresh or frozen cut bait. |
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| Patches of red on the stricken whale show it is infested with tiny crabs called cyamids. |
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| There are shrimp, crabs, sea anemones that look like Venus flytraps, as well as red octopuses, sea stars, fish, and more. |
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| Catfish, mullet, jacks, croakers, cowfish, guitarfish, stingrays, crabs and crayfish, are common meals for the lemon shark. |
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| We also saw small creatures such as nudibranch, leaf fish and hermit crabs. |
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| Parasitisation of juvenile edible crabs by the dinoflagellate, Hematodinium sp. |
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| This particular ghastly grimace belongs to a California Swellshark which lies in rocky crevices, waiting to ambush fish and crabs. |
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