| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Chionoecetes Krøyer, 1838 |
| Sources | |
basis of record: Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Pohle, G.W. 1990. A guide to decapod Crustacea from the Canadian Atlantic: Anomura and Brachyura. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 1771. 29 p. [details]
additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
English |
queen crab |
[details] |
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English |
snow crab |
[details] |
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Norwegian Bokmål |
snøkrabbe |
[details] |
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Norwegian Nynorsk |
snøkrabbe |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
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| Links | | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life (123 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (90 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Species fact sheets
To GenBank (87 nucleotides; 48 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Distribution: Arctic to Gulf of Maine [details]
Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
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| Images | | 
Chionoecetes opilio female
added on 2010-02-10 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Chionoecetes opilio - dried
added on 2010-02-17 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Chionoecetes opilio - snow crab (small)
added on 2011-02-23 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ( )
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Chionoecetes opilio
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Catriona Day ( )
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Chionoecetes opilio
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Catriona Day ()
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Chionoecetes opilio - snow crabs
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada ()
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Female crab with eggs
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada ()
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Chionoecetes opilio
added on 2011-05-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Jean-François St-Pierre ( )
qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107315 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Davie, P.; Türkay, M. (2013). Chionoecetes opilio (O. Fabricius, 1788). Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2013) Canadian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107315 on 2013-05-19 |
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