Friends of the headlines, have you ever eaten crabs?
Quietly tell you oh, there are more than 4700 kinds of crabs in the world, and there are more than 800 kinds of crabs in China.
Today, let's talk about 6 common edible crabs on the market.
The first: saw-edge blue crab, known as red crab in South Australia
The breastplate is slightly oval in shape, with a smooth surface, a slightly raised center, and a bluish-green face and appendages.
Burrows on intertidal mudflats or silt-sandy mudflats, and prefers to stay in places such as rock crevices where the mud flats are puddles.
It feeds on meat and eats mud cockles, oysters, clams, barnacles, small shrimp and crabs in the sea.
This crab has a high nutritional value, especially the female crab, which is regarded as a cream crab and is known as sea ginseng!
The second type: three-wart pike crab, known as winter crab in South Australians
Male three-wart pike crabs are tea-green, while female three-wart pike crabs are purple, and both the ventral surface is white.
The abdomen of male triple-wart pike crabs is long-shaped, while the abdomen of female triple-wart pike crab adults is nearly rounded.
The three-warty pike crab inhabits soft mud near a water depth of 7-100 meters, under the sand mud or in aquatic grasses, and has a clear habit of moving vertically day and night.
It feeds on fish, shrimp, shellfish, algae, and even eats its own kind, especially animal carcasses.
April to July is the breeding season for three-wart pike crabs.
The third kind: red star pike crab, known as three-eyed crab in South Australia, and in some places called three-point crab and three-eyed crab.
This crab is extremely common, the cephalothorax is fusiform, slightly raised, and there are 3 oval spots under the shell, hence the name triopod crab. The shell is grey-green with fine particles and white moiré on the surface.
Triorthord crab is a warm water bottom crab, inhabiting the muddy seabed at a depth of 10-40 meters, and the small individuals often attach to the seaweed drifting in the sea, feeding on fish, shrimp, shellfish and algae, and the breeding peak is from May to August.
The trinacle crab is delicious, high in protein, fat and vitamins and rich in content, and is one of the important economic crabs in South Australia.
The fourth kind: sword-hugging pike crab, also known as hairy crab, flat crab.
The whole body is orange-red, with white spots on the frontal claws and swimming limbs, and a purple-red spot on the end of the other swimming limbs, and the width of the nail is 1.8 positions of nail length.
Hairy crab is a warm water species, mainly living in the 10 to 100 meters of sedimenty seabed, feeding on fish, shrimp, shellfish, seaweed, the breeding period is also in May to August, is one of the important raw materials for frozen crabs.
The fifth species: Japanese crab, also known as stone crab, stone crab.
The abdomen and leg margin of the stone crab are slightly red, the cephalothorax is about 1.45 times the length of the nail, and there are 6 distinct pointed teeth on the anterior frontal margin, and the middle 2 teeth are more prominent.
Stone crabs are widely spread species of broad temperature and saltiness, inhabiting water or sand mud and reefs on the substrate. The water depth is 10-60 meters. The breeding season is from April to September, feeding on small fish, shrimp, small shellfish, and sometimes algae and animal carcasses.
This crab is also a favorite seafood and aquatic products of the public, which belongs to the precious crab class, and the price is slightly higher.
The sixth kind: rusty spotted crab, also known as spotted crab, spotted crab, flower worm and so on.
The cephalothorax is reddish brown with an orange longitudinal spot in the middle of the anterior half that extends from the posterior forehead to the heart area, and the anterior stomach area also has an orange-yellow transverse spot, and the front of the two fingers is dark brown.
It is a warm-water crab that inhabits sandy rocky reefs, reef coasts or coral reef discs at depths of 30-80 m, feeding on small fish, shrimp and small shellfish, and the breeding period is from July to December.
It is a valuable variety, and there are crabs that eat large.
How, are these crabs familiar? Have you eaten them all?