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 Rock
crabs live in the
benthic zone (bottom) of the ocean and bay.
They are able to adapt to extreme variations in
depth.
The depths that they exist at range from deep
waters at 2,600ft. to very shallow waters and
occasionally well inland from the low tide line
They live on a variety of substrate types
including rocky and loose material.
Smaller
crabs with the cephalorthorax width of about 50
mm tend to inhabit muddy or sandy bottoms, while
other crabs seem to prefer the rocky bottoms
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