Animal of the Day

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Animal of the Day
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Species Fact SheetCancer magister

• Root meaning
• Crab master
• Classification
• Phylum Arthropoda
• Order Decapoda
• Class Crustacea
• Family Cancridae

• Related animals
• other crabs, barnacles, shrimps

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• Range
• common from Alaska to Mexico
• Habitat
• Found in bays and shallow coastal waters up to
  (180 m). Seem to prefer sand and eelgrass beds,
  can range up to a mile a day.
• Behavior
• Move quickly, running on tips of legs and almost
  swim as a result of movement of last pair of legs
• They will bury themselves in sand exposing only
  antennae, eyes, and attenules.

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• Diet
• Carnivorous feeding on small clams and abalone.
• Will eat dead animal flesh only if it is fresh
• Reproduction
• Mate in spring and summer
• after female molts. Female
• can store sperm for months
• Before laying eggs in late fall.
• Female will brood egss up to
• 2.5 million for several months
• before they hatch

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Can collect only males wider than 5 ¾ inches
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