Lithodidae Dromiidae Atelecyclidae Cancridae Pirimelidae Cheiragonidae Dorippidae Eriphiidae Epialtidae Inachidae Oregoniidae Pilumnidae Geryonidae Portunidae Potamidae Panopeidae Xanthidae Grapsidae Images Name list Publications Sites alex@equator.ru Whole checklist По-русски (in Russian) Porcellanidae Varunidae Camptandriidae Macrophthalmidae Pinnotheridae Hapalogastridae Plagusiidae Far East / North Pacific Black Sea Baltic Sea Freshwater crabs Arctic Ocean Designed and composed by Alex Alyakrinsky, 2011 Oregoniidae Hyas araneus (Linnaeus, 1758) Arctic Ocean Common name: toad crab  Range: “West Greenland; Labrador to Rhode Island; between Greenland and Iceland, through  British Isles and northwest France to Spitsbergen and Kara Sea; intertidal to 360 m.” Type-  locality. —"Habitat in Oceano Europaeo." [Williams, 1984, p. 309].  Hard, stony, sandy and soft bottom (Christiansen 1969); commoner on soft bottom where H.  coarctatus is rarer, the two species being complementary (Hartnoll 1963); intertidal to 350-  360 m, usually less than 50 m. [Williams, 1984, p. 309].  Size. “Measurements in mm.—Carapace: male, length 95, width 75; ovigerous female, length  81, width 64.” [Williams, 1984, p. 309].  Color. “Reddish brown dorsally and dirty white ventrally (Christiansen 1969).” [Williams,  1984, p. 309]. Hyas araneus (Linnaeus, 1758) Cancer araneus Linnaeus 1758: 628.  Hyas araneus. —Leach 1814: 431. — Rathbun 1925: 253, text-figs. 91-92, pls. 92-93. —  Christiansen 1969: 116, fig. 48. [Williams, 1984, p. 309].  Hyas araneus in marinespecies.org