Maldives Seafood

seamaster 26 October 2008 Crustacean 8,530 views One Comment Print This Post

Amazing Crabs

Crabs are an amazing animal from the same group of lobster called crustaceans. Like other crustaceans, these are boneless and their bodies are covered with a hard shell that protects its internal bodies.

These little creatures has many attributes that can adapt many changing environments. Although, most of them live in Oceans, sometimes they come out on the beach. Apart, from sea water crabs there are fresh water ones also. They can move and run sideways using tips of its legs on sandy and muddy beaches. It gets shelter and protection on holes dug by it.

This crustacean have two feelers or antennae and compound eyes, as a result it can see very well. They can find food and mate very easily because of its advanced senses of smell and taste.

It has five pairs of legs; the first with powerful claws at the end. The other four pairs for walking and running and the back pairs are some times used to paddle through the water.

When immature one grows larger, old shell is not needed and a new shell grows over its body. This unprotected state, not having a shell on its body is the most dangerous moment in their life. Because there is the possibility of being eaten by other creatures.

You will find some of these that do not have a hard shell, over their whole body and to save from harm of the bare parts where there is no shell it gets other shells like snail shell. One kind of this is Hermitcrabs. Claws of them are used for many purposes; to protect it from predators, to fight and to hunt its prey.

Seafood recipes of these are delicious! King crab is the most famous among the people which grows up to 5 kilo grams.

There are many kinds that are eaten; some of them are Dungeness crabs, blue crabs or soft-shellcrabs.Between males sometimes fighting takes place in order to win the females.