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{{Taxobox | name = Pugettia productus | image = Northern Kelp Crab.jpg | regnum = [[Animal] | phylum = Arthropoda | subphylum = Crustacea | classis = Malacostraca | ordo = Decapoda | infraordo = Brachyura | familia = Epialtidae | genus = Pugettia | species = P. productus | binomial = Pugettia productus | binomial_authority = (J. W. Randall, 1840) | synonyms =

  • Pugettia producta
  • Epialtus producta
  • Epialtus productus

}}

Pugettia productus, known as the northern kelp crab or shield-backed kelp crab,[1] is a species of crab in the family Epialtidae.[2]

Distribution

Found along the Pacific Coast from southern Alaska to northern Mexico.[3]

Description

Dark brown coloured with carapace shaped like a police officer's badge or shield. As the name suggests, it feeds on kelp. Size to 9 cm (3.5 in) across the carapace. They cover them selves in green stuff too.


References

  1. ^ Dave Cowles (2005). "Pugettia producta (Randall, 1839)". Walla Walla University. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
  2. ^ Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
  3. ^ Andy Lamb & Bernard P. Hanby (2005). Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishers. ISBN 978-1-55017-361-1.