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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classMalacostraca
  4. ›orderDecapoda
  5. ›familyOregoniidae
  6. ›genusChionoecetes
Chionoecetes opilio
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IUCN NE · Not evaluated

snow crab

Chionoecetes opilio (Fabricius, 1788)

Also calledArctische sneeuwkrab (nld) · Arktische Seespinne (deu) · Cangrejo de las nieves (spa) · Crabe des neiges (Le) (fra) · Nordische Eismeerkrabbe (deu) · Schneekrabbe (deu) · crabe des neiges (fra) · saattuaq (kal) · snøkrabbe (nob) · snøkrabbe (nno) · stor grønlandsk krabbe (dan) · Краб-стригун обыкновенный (опилио) (rus) · Краб-стригун опилио (rus) · Обыкновенный краб-стригун (rus)

First described in: Conspectus Crustaceorum groenlandiae. Naturh. Tids

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

Introduced species vector dispersal

in Norwegian part of the Barentsz Sea (Marine Region) : Shipping

World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2226639.