What is a hairy crab?

Furry crab or pilimnus hirtellus is a small crab that comes from the coastal waters in Western and Central Europe. He lives in rocky habitats or muddy sands along the ocean banks. Most of his body and legs are covered with bristle hair that accumulates the sediment and help crabs from their predators by mixing with the background. Krud is a piece of exoskeleton that covers the head and the middle part of many crabs. The furry crab has a fan in the shape of a fan that is slightly wider than long. This carapace usually measures around 0.8-1.2 inches (2-3 centimeters) along its width and length and seems reddish-brown or slightly purple colors.

hairy crabs are decapodes, which means they have ten legs. Five legs extend out of each side of the carapace. The back four legs on both sides walk legs that help the skattle of crabs. The front two legs, one on each side, are called Chelipedes, and each of them is tilted by a large chelea or pliers similar to claw. The right claw is almostAlways noticeably larger than the left claw of furry crabs.

Cring and pedestrian legs of hairy crab are covered with bristle hair. In fact, hairy crabs are sometimes called bristle crabs. These hairs can accumulate mud, sediment and muddy sand from ocean or coast bottom, and this camouflage helps crabs to mix with the background and hide from their predators.

This species was found in the sea throughout Europe, from the British Isles to North Africa and the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Like most species of ocean -based crab, a furry crab lives between rocks, stones or seaweeds at the bottom of the ocean or along the coast or in the sand holes on the beach. Even if it can survive in seawater hundreds of feet (tens of meters) deep, mostly prefers shall have preferably prefers shall have preferable. It eats vegetation and meat, including seaweed, algae, worms and carcasses of the Dead Sea creature.

Family pilimnidAE , from which Pilimnus Hirtellus is a member of the pilimnus hirtellus , includes dozens of other species. Many of them are also informally called hairy crabs. In addition, the Chinese crabs are gloves, which are members of the Varunidae family , known as the hairy crabs in Shanghai or hairy crabs. This species is especially famous because crabs are considered a delicacy in Asian cuisine.