"crab" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After development as larvae, the juvenile crabs gradually move upstream into fresh water, thus completing the life cycle.
- While juvenile and adult crabs spend most of their time on dry land, the females must return to the ocean to release their eggs.
- It can vary in coloration from yellow to brown with the juvenile crabs tending to be darker than adults.
- The juvenile crabs steal food from the jellyfish and also clean off parasitic amphipods.
- Before developing into juvenile crabs, larval brush-clawed crabs spend almost one month floating in the ocean.
- They share the same habitat as juvenile green crabs and mud crabs.
- Females can produce up to 185,000 eggs, and larvae develop offshore in several stages before their final moult to juvenile crabs in the intertidal zone.
- After that the larvae settle on the sea bed and undergo metamorphosis into juvenile crabs.
- The color of these crabs varies throughout their development; juvenile crabs typically have a white or yellow carapace, while adults are usually crimson red.
- The larvae go through six stages in about four weeks before emerging as juvenile crabs.
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