REAL DRIED CRABS FOR SERIOUS AND CASUAL COLLECTORS

DRIED CRABS TYPE, SIZES, PRICES, DESCRIPTION



• Crabs belong to the Phylum Arthropoda. They are arthropods. Arthropods are the largest group of invertebrate animals. There are more than 1,000,000 known species. Most artropods are land dwelling insects. Then marine arthropods or crustacea class includes over 31,000 species.



• Arthropods have a tough encasement of armor or exoskeleton, which gives the animal rigidity and protection for its soft insides.


• The crab or arthropod armour is primarily made of chitin. , secreted by its cells. There are many forms and colors of crabs allowing them to be very adaptable to various coastal environments



• Most crabs are oval, rectangular or triangular. They have a front pair of pincers and four pairs of walking legs.



• The skeleton has joints, where the chitin is thin and flexible. This flexibility permits movement. The skeleton inhibits growth. Growth can only be done by molting the skeleton. Molting happens after a soft skeleton is secreted beneath the hard outside layer. The old skeleton splits and allows the animal to crawl out. The soft skeleton then hardens quickly

MOUNTED COCONUT CRAB PRICES




One Coconut mounted dried crab 4 to 4 7/8 inch.......$14





One Coconut mounted dried crab 5 to 5 7/8 inch.......$18.20





One Coconut mounted dried crab 6 to 6 7/8 inch.......$21

COCONUT CRAB SIZE AND PRICE



• One Dried Coconut Crab 4 to 4 7/8 inch.......$12.60




• One Dried Coconut Crab 5 to 5 7/8 inch.......$16.80

GIANT RED CRAB SIZE AND PRICE



• One Giant Red Dried Crab 6 to 6 7/8 inch.......$9.10




• One Giant Red Dried Crab 7 to 7 7/8 inch.......$9.80




• One Giant Red Dried Crab 8 to 8 7/8 inch.......$14

RED DRIED STONE CRAB SIZE AND PRICE



• Menippe Mercenaria, of the Crustacea class. They range from North Carolina, south along the Florida coast and West to Texas and across the West Indies. Harvesting is restricted.

• The Stone Crab color after molting is a brownish-red with gray spots and tan on the underside. They are oval shaped. It is considered a mud crab. They burrow in sandy-mud shoals, near the low tide line. Young stone crabs are found along the channel bottoms in turtle grass beds, hidden within the rocks and shells. Most are able to regenerate an appendage in two molts.



• One dried Red Stone Crab 4 to 5 inch.......OUT OF STOCK

BOX CRAB SIZE AND PRICE



• Our Box Crabs were captured in depths greater than 100 feet. They are from the Indo-Pacific region Ranging from Indonesia across the northern Australian shores to the Sea of Japan. They prey on hermit crabs and sea snails.



• One dried Box Crab 4 to 6 inches.......$6.30

DRIED HORSESHOE CRAB SIZE AND PRICE



• Limulus Polyphemus Class Merostomata. The Horseshoe Crab has a horseshoe shaped carapace convex, with a triangular abdomen and a spikelike tail; older animals are usually covered with algae. The algae is a greenish tan. The crab has a pair of compound eyes on each side of the carapace; two simple eyes on forepart of midline. The sides of the abdomen are scalloped with 6 spines. It has one pair of pinchners in front of mouth. The mouth is surrounded by five pairs of walking legs. Each walking leg has a burrlike base. The last pair of walking legs has a circle of leaflets.



• The underside of abdomen has 6 pairs of overlapping flaps. The first flap covering openings of six ducts and others covering 5 pairs of book gills made up of many flat sheets.



• Habitat. On mud or sand bottoms ranging from low-tide line to depths of 75 feet. The Horseshoe Crab can be found from Maine to Gulf of Mexico. This is a unique animal.
  
  
  

• The Horseshoe Crab feeds on clams, sea worms and many other invertebrates. It grinds its food the butt-like bases of the walking legs that surround the mouth. In spring the crabs gather near shore.




• When the sping tide is high males mount the abdomen of the female with their walking legs. At high tide the female digs a hole above the low-tide line and can lay more than 200 pale green eggs. The male then secretes sperm to fertilize the eggs. The eggs remain buried several weeks. The hatch as miniature horseshoe crabs, with tiny button tails.




• One dried Horseshoe Crab 18 to 24 inches.......$25.20

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