Portly Spider Crab
Libinia emarginata
The adult is a slow, sturdy spider crab of Atlantic coastal bays, estuaries, seagrass beds, and soft-bottom shallows. It scavenges and forages for worms, small mollusks, algae, carrion, and other bottom-dwelling food. Its rounded armored carapace can be decorated with attached seaweed and other material, helping it blend into the seafloor. Females carry clusters of eggs under the abdomen until the larvae hatch into the plankton.
- Type
- Shell / Stealth
- Conservation status
- NE
Growth chain
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- Portly Spider Crab