Difference between Bairdi crab and Opilio crab
One can hardly help being amazed by the various different types of creatures that walk the Earth. With thousands and thousands of creatures already discovered, scientists and specifically zoologists admit that there are still many species that are not known to us. Almost every few days, some new species is discovered and added to the already long list of living things. Moreover, many species that we know about have distant relatives that are part of the same family but cannot be considered the same as the already known species due to significant differences between the two. In this article, we will look at two types of crabs, namely the Opilio crab and the Bairdi crab, both of whohc belong to the family of crabs, but owing to certain important differences, are not the same. …show more content…
They are very similar to Opilio crabs which are known as Chionoecetes Opilio and it can be extremely difficult to distinguish between the two. The Opilio is also found in the Bering Sea and are commercially sold under the name of ‘snow crab’. In recent times, tanner crabs have been under threat due to overfishing. Tanner crabs is what is referred to as true crabs; they have short tails and are decapods with pincer claws on the front-most pair of their legs. Their life expectancy stretches to about a decade with the adults reaching about one to four pounds at adulthood, in about five