Life History of the Blue Crab |
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adult crabs adult female crabs appearance appendages August autotomy batch of eggs Binford blue crab body bore remnants bottom broad abdomen carried cent Chesapeake Bay color confined in floats copulation copulatory organs cove crab bearing crab stage crabbers crabs are found crabs found crabs molt crabs of Chesapeake crates Crisfield curve Edible Crab experiments fertilized figure hairs Hampton River hatched immature crabs inches in width individual intromittent organs June June 15 last molting lot of eggs lower side Lynnhaven Bay Lynnhaven Roads Maryland waters megalops stage migration molting stages moltings occur months observed ovaries oviducts pair peeler Plate XLVIII Pocomoke Sound probably reach maturity regeneration season seen shell showing shown in Plate sixth crab soft-crab southern spawn the following sperm sacs spermatophores spermatozoa sponge-bearing crabs spring swimmerets temperature text figure tide vas deferens view of adult white ridge winter wire XLIX young crabs zoëa