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    Carcinus maenas is a common littoral crab. It is known by different names around the world. In the British Isles, it is generally referred to as the shore crab, or green shore crab. In North America and South Africa, it bears the name European green crab. C. maenas is a widespread invasive species, listed among the … See more

    C. maenas has a carapace up to 60 mm (2.4 in) long and 90 mm (3.5 in) wide, but can be larger outside its native range, reaching 100 mm (3.9 in) wide in British Columbia. The carapace has five short teeth along the rim … See more

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    Due to its potentially harmful effects on ecosystems, various efforts have been made to control introduced populations of C. maenas around … See more

    Carcinus maenas was first given a binomial name, Cancer maenas, by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. … See more

    Particular amino acids in particular signaling peptides of C. maenas are protonated by pH changes currently (as of 2020 ) occurring or likely to be … See more

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    C. maenas is native to European and North African coasts as far as the Baltic Sea in the east, and Iceland and Central Norway in … See more

    C. maenas can live in all types of protected and semiprotected marine and estuarine habitats, including those with mud, sand, or rock … See more

    C. maenas is fished on a small scale in the northeast Atlantic Ocean, with about 1200 tonnes being caught annually, mostly in France and the United Kingdom. In the northwest Atlantic, C. maenas was the subject of fishery in the 1960s, and again since 1996, with up … See more

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  2. WEBCarcinus maenas, commonly known as the green crab, has been listed as one of the ‘100 worst invasive species’. It is native to European coasts from Iceland and Norway to Mauritania, West Africa.

  3. Carcinus maenas (European shore crab) | CABI Compendium

  4. Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) - World Register of …

    WEBOn the West Coast, Carcinus maenas is regarded as a potential predator on commercially important clams, including introduced Softshell Clams, Japanese Littlenecks (Venerupis philippinarum), and the Mediterranean …