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king crab

Large, edible crab Paralithodes camtschatica, of the North Pacific. The term ‘king crab’ is sometimes used as another name for the horseshoe crab.



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Unlike crabs in the families Lithodidae and Paguridae, Aegla platensis, a riverine anomuran in Brazil, develops through the zoea and decapodid stages (equivalent to the megalops or glaucothoe) inside the egg and hatches alter 35 d (Lizardo-Daudt and Bond-Buckup 2003).
 
 
 
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