Cancer pagurus
Description
Common crab, Cancer pagurus was seen at Lancaster on a return visit 9 months after drilling. The Boulders are encrusted with Pomatocerus sp.
| Item Type: | Image |
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| Title: | Cancer pagurus |
| Creator(s): | MacLean, M. |
| Identification: | MacLean, M. |
| Date: | 27 May 2010 |
| Time: | 09:23:04 |
| Copyright: | SERPENT Project |
| Classification: | Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) > Class Malacostraca (Crabs, krill, pill bugs, shrimps, prawns) > Order Decapoda (Crabs, lobsters, prawns, shrimps) > Family Cancridae (rock crabs) |
| Species: | Cancer pagurus, Pomatocerus sp. |
| Site: | Atlantic > North Sea > West of Shetland > Lancaster North Sea > West of Shetland > Lancaster |
| Site Description: | Seafloor |
| Depth (m): | 155 |
| Latitude: | 60 deg 11' 13" N |
| Longitude: | 3 deg 51' 18" W |
| Countries: | UK > West of Shetland |
| Habitat: | benthic |
| Substratum: | sand/gravel |
| Rig: | Borgsten Dolphin |
| Project Partners: | Hurricane Exploration (HEX), Subsea 7 |
| ROV: | Pioneer 027 |
| Keywords: | Lancaster West of Shetland Benthic Atlantic Common crab Cancer Pagurus |
| Deposited By: | Dr Andrew Gates |
| Deposited On: | 17 November 2010 |
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