Great spider crab

Great spider crab

Taxobox
name = Great spider crab


image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
subordo = Pleocyemata
infraordo = Brachyura
familia = Majidae
genus = "Hyas"
species = "H. araneus"
binomial = "Hyas araneus"
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)

The great spider crab, "Hyas araneus", is a species of crab found in Atlantic waters and the North Sea, usually below the tidal zone [cite web |url=http://www.seawater.no/fauna/Leddyr/sandpyntekrabbe.htm |title=Great spider crab |work=The Marine Fauna Gallery of Norway |author=Kåre Telnes |accessdate=2007-06-28] .

In 2003 it was discovered around the Antarctic Peninsula apparently transported by human agency cite journal |quotes=no |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=226903 |title=Discovery of the first known benthic invasive species in the Southern Ocean: the North Atlantic spider crab "Hyas araneus" found in the Antarctic Peninsula |author=Marcos Tavares & Gustavo A. D. de Melo |journal=Antarctic Science |year=2004 |volume=16 |pages=129–131 |doi=10.1017/S0954102004001877] .

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