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Designed and composed by Alex Alyakrinsky, 2011
Cancridae
Cancer pagurus
Linnaeus, 1758
Black Sea
Range. Atlantic Ocean from W. Norway to Portugal; Mediterranean Sea.
It lives in upper sublittoral among rocks and stones. For the Black Sea there is only one record.
Vinogradov (1949) have found it in the collection of Zoological institute (Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine) with label “Black Sea, Anapa, 1918, Luchnik”.
Size of carapace. In the Adriatic sea medium size is 100 x 180 mm, up to 200 x 300 mm.
[Kobjakova & Dolgopolskaya, 1969, p. 290].
Cancer pagurus
in marevita.org