1, the living environment is not the same: the pine leaf crab is scientifically known as the North Pacific Snow Crab, is native to Russia and Japan around the sea a kind of snow crab, living in the water depth of 50m to 1200m meters on the seabed; the snow crab is the largest crab resource in Alaska, the abundance of the annual catch can be more than 100,000 tons, living in the cooler waters, these two types of crabs are produced only in Alaskan waters and usually only male crabs are caught.

2, the number of bone spurs are not the same: pine leaf crab has 6 bone spurs, snow crab has 10 bone spurs, snow crab bone spurs more than pine leaf crab.

3, the shape is different: snow crabs have three pairs of footsteps, the loose-leaf crab has four pairs of footsteps.

4, the family is not the same: the snow crab belongs to the family of stone crabs, the loose-leaf crab for the family of sand crabs.