1, belonging to different families and species

King crab: refers to the giant quasi-shore crab, which is produced in Australia and belongs to the family Diptera.

King crab: generally refers to Kamchatka stone crab, not a real crab, belonging to the stone crab family.

2. Different shapes

King crab: Generally, it weighs 2 kg to 5 kg, and it will weigh seven or eight kg after ten years. It is the heaviest crab in the world, weighing 36 kilograms, with a nail width of 60 centimeters, a foot span of 1.5 meters, a fat body, a hard shell, red and white shell fans, thick claws and black fingers.

King crab: also known as stone crab or rock crab, that is, crustaceans of the family Stone Crab, not real crabs. In addition to wearing a hard shell, the back and edges are covered with thorns of different sizes, holding a pair of pliers-like claws. Long legs have black hooked joints at the ends.

Because the king crab of Kamchatka has been shuttling through the cracks in the rocks on the seabed for a long time and adapted to this environment for a long time, one leg has degenerated and is hidden in the buccal cavity, so the big crab has only six legs.

3. Different distribution areas

King Crab: King Crab is found in many sea areas of the world, distributed in the Sea of Okhotsk, the North Pacific Ocean, the Sea of Japan and the Arctic coast of Alaska, including the Galapagos Islands in the Bering Sea. The main countries producing king crabs are Russia, Alaska, Norway, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Chile and Argentina.

King crabs are distributed in western and southern Australia, and the water depth ranges from 100 to 180 meters.

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