Blue Crab Anatomy

Blue crab anatomy female female abdomen ventral view. His motto is release it unharmed or do it justice on the plate.

Louisiana Fisheries Anatomy Of A Blue Crab

Heart the pump of the circulatory system.

Blue crab anatomy. Blue crab anatomy exterior anatomy. Learn vocabulary terms and more with flashcards games and other study tools. Crabs are capable of walking forward or diagonally but usually they walk sideways.

John follows the fish from hook up to plate up. There are eight gills on each side of a blue crabs body. Blue crab dissection external anatomy examine your crab and note that unlike more primitive decapods such as shrimps and crayfish the body is very wide and is dorsoventrally flattened.

The first article or coxa of a pleopod is attached to the body by a soft and flexible articulating membrane see figure below. Examine the external anatomy of your specimen. Internal features gills place of respiration and filtration consisting of many plume like filaments arranged around a central axis.

Females have four pairs of pleopods or swimmerets on abdominal segments 2 through 5. John shelton the fishing chef will help you get that fish onto your plate. Dorsal view male atlantic blue crab callinectes sapidusmale and female anatomy.

Start studying blue crab anatomy labeled. Most of the body is head and thorax which are covered dorsally by a large hard carapace.

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