14 articles
The Chilean kelp crab — jaiba marmola — is a spider-crab grazer of great kelp beds and the centre of a diver-run artisanal fishery. A species and livelihood profile.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The flat porcelain crab packs under Pacific shore rocks by the hundred, sifting plankton with feathery mouthparts and shedding legs it can calmly regrow.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Lepas anatifera spends its life attached to flotsam — kelp rafts, driftwood, plastic. Anatomy, the goose myth, tsunami debris and where to find them.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The graceful kelp crab is the smaller, rougher, more widely wandering sibling of the northern kelp crab — as at home in eelgrass as on a kelp frond.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The hairy shore crab is the Pacific coast's estuary specialist — bristle-legged, slow-footed and more comfortable in brackish water than its purple cousin.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Kelp isopods graze fouling algae off giant kelp blades — and in boom years can chew through the stipes themselves. Meet the forest's smallest crew.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The purple shore crab is the little purple scavenger under nearly every rock on Pacific rocky shores — a key cleaner linking the kelp forest to the tide line.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Cancer productus owns the rocky shallows of the Pacific coast: crushing claws, black-tipped pincers, and a quiet role policing urchins. ID, biology, fishery.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Carcinus maenas is Europe's toughest shore crab — a kelp-edge scavenger at home and one of the world's most consequential marine invaders everywhere else.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Necora puber — red eyes, velvety shell, paddle legs and a famous temper — is the reef's feistiest crab from Norway to Iberia, and a quiet kelp-forest worker.
Tom Okafor ·
Dungeness crab species profile: the life cycle from drifting larva to fishing pot, sand-flat and kelp-edge habitat, moulting growth and fishery stewardship.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Paguristes ulreyi, the furry hermit crab of Pacific kelp forests: how to identify it, why it wears hydroid-covered shells, and its role on the reef floor.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Graceful crab species profile: the slim Metacarcinus gracilis of eelgrass, bays and kelp edges — how to tell it from a small Dungeness, and its estuary role.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Helmet crab species profile: the saw-edged, bristled Telmessus cheiragonus — a night-roaming burrower of kelp coast sand from Alaska to Japan.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·