Biology:Oyster crab
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Short description: Species of crab
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| Z. ostreus on Crassostrea virginica | |
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| Genus: | Zaops
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| Species: | Z. ostreus
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| Zaops ostreus | |
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The oyster crab (Zaops ostreus) is a small, whitish or translucent crab in the family Pinnotheridae.
Ecology
It is less than half an inch across, and lives inside the gills of an oyster or a clam.[3] It uses the oyster for protection and lives on the food that the oyster gets for itself. It is found in oysters in the North Atlantic Ocean.[3]
Distribution
Zaops ostreus is found along the eastern seaboards of North America and South America, from Massachusetts to Brazil , including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 P. K. L. Ng; D. Guinot; P. J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf.
- ↑ "Zaops ostreum (Say, 1817)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=621737. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Paul A. Sandifer (1972). "Growth of young oyster crabs, Pinnotheres ostreum Say, reared in the laboratory". Chesapeake Science 13 (3): 221–222. doi:10.2307/1351069.
- ↑ Darryl L. Felder; Fernando Álvarez; Joseph W. Goy; Rafael Lemaitre (2009). "Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with comments on the Amphionidacea". Biodiversity. Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota. 1. Texas A&M University Press. pp. 1019–1105. ISBN 978-1-60344-094-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&pg=PA1087.
Further reading
- "The Oyster Crab Salad". New York Times. March 20, 1893. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/03/20/109695975.pdf.
- "Oyster Crabs - - The Epicure's Delight". New York Times. November 9, 1913. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/11/09/100659223.pdf.
- "Host and Parasite recruitment correlated at a regional scale". Oecolagia. 2014. https://web.northeastern.edu/grabowskilab/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Byers-et-al-2014-Oecologia.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q3932314 entry
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