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Snow Crab Egg "Door" or Abdominal Vent, NF_457AS_72dpi.

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A researcher thumbs the egg "door" on a female Snow Crab, and important food in Newfoundland, Canada. Newfoundland and Labrador's snow crab fishery is the most lucrative in the province. Male Alaska snow crab can reach 6 inches in shell width but females seldom grow larger than 3 inches. It is estimated that snow crabs can live for 20 years. A large female can carry an estimated 100,000 eggs in her egg "door" in her abdomen. The male's corresponding abdominal vent is very narrow in comparison. The eggs hatch in the spring. They are most closely related to hermit crabs, and toad crabs.

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NF_457AS_Crab egg door_ NF©JMacCausland'13 _72dpi.jpg
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Janet MacCausland
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A researcher thumbs the egg "door" on a female Snow Crab, and important food in Newfoundland, Canada. Newfoundland and Labrador's snow crab fishery is the most lucrative in the province. Male Alaska snow crab can reach 6 inches in shell width but females seldom grow larger than 3 inches. It is estimated that snow crabs can live for 20 years. A large female can carry an estimated 100,000 eggs in her egg "door" in her abdomen. The male's corresponding abdominal vent is very narrow in comparison. The eggs hatch in the spring. They are most closely related to hermit crabs, and toad crabs.
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