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Originally Posted by Scythan  Thanks for the link! I looked through the pictures and some looked close with the body shape, but I'm no expert. There are so many types of crabs, I hope to get mine narrowed down to species level, but family is a great start! Nice to know they are related.
Are there any specific things about them I should take a picture of that would help you ID them?
By the way, the link near the top to the photo gallery is broken, thought you'd want to know. Thanks again! |
Carapace shape and claw details will give you the best ID features, but if they belong to the Xanthidae family, a species ID is going to be almost impossible as there are thousands of species and very few of them are documented/known. Online sources (except mine of course..lol) are usualy horrible at getting species correctly named as well.
Thanks for the heads up on the link!
Chuck