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Mediterranean Spider Crab

Maja squinado (Herbst 1788)

Distribution

provided by World Register of Marine Species
abundant on west and south-west British coasts, less common in the North Sea.

Reference

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

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