Common shore crab
Carcinus maenas
Category: Crabs & Lobsters
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Carcinidae
- Genus
- Carcinus
Where to Find
Found in 21 diving areas across 10 countries and 4 regions.
- South Australia, Australia - 1 records
- Victoria, Australia - 47 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 2 records
- Bornholm, Denmark - 131 records
- North Sea Coast, Denmark - 2226 records
- Marseille & Calanques, France - 1 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 386 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 281 records
- Algarve & Berlengas, Portugal - 29 records
- Azores, Portugal - 1 records
- Baltic Coast, Sweden - 5 records
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 622 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 1514 records
- Northumberland & Northeast, United Kingdom - 395 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 463 records
- Scottish East Coast & Borders, United Kingdom - 311 records
- Scottish West Coast, United Kingdom - 921 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 97 records
- Newfoundland, Canada - 21 records
- Nova Scotia, Canada - 40 records
- Pacific Northwest, United States - 9979 records