Emperor crab = king crab = the largest crab in the world, many people think so. This perception is simply outrageously wrong! As a small editor of seafood engaged in the aquatic industry, in the academic spirit of exploring the truth, I decided to popularize these 3 kinds of big crabs that are not in the same channel at all.
99% of people can't tell these 3 crab species
Emperor crab, scientific name giant pseudo-coast crab, commonly known as Australian cancer crab, Australian emperor crab, produced in Australia. It is the heaviest crab in existence, with an average weight of 4-10 pounds, multi-cream and meaty, and is generally used for soup or stir-frying. The simplest way is to unload the emperor crab in eight pieces, directly boil the soup, cook it well, and then fish out the crab meat and eat it.
Emperor crab
King crabs, also known as stone crabs and rock crabs, are produced in cold seas (such as the famous Alaskan king crab) and are crustaceans of the stone crab family, not real crabs.
There are many varieties of king crabs, and they do not specifically refer to one kind of crab. In Alaska, king crab fishing is restricted, and biologists set annual fishing quotas for red and blue king crabs. In the very deep waters of the Aleutian Islands, golden king crabs can be caught year-round with no quota restrictions. China and the surrounding areas of Asia do not produce king crabs, and most of the king crabs sold in the ditch in China are imported and quick-frozen.
King crab
The world's largest crab is the killer crab, scientific name Gan's giant crab, native to the bottom of the northwest Pacific Ocean, is the world's largest known crustacean. Although it is called a killer crab, it cannot kill people – calling a killer scorpion is entirely a translational curse. Before it was well known to Chinese, this crab had an English name called deadman crab, which was translated as a ghoul crab, and literally translated as a killer crab.
Killer crabs
The largest killer crab found in the Uk, called crabzilla, is about the size of a blue ball, and the two claws spread out at 3.5 meters, almost a length of a half Yao Ming.
The emperor crab foot curves forward, the king crab foot bends back, and the killer crab foot is special - in this way, is it particularly easy to distinguish these 3 kinds of crabs?
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