Velvet swimming crab

Velvet swimming crab

Necora puber
Scale 7 Diat: omnivore , Hierachy 3

7 POINTS

Animalia, Arthropoda, Malacostraca

This crab is an important species for UK fisheries and feeds on brown algae, snails and crustaceans (size 4-7).

Habitat: rocky shore, subtidal


Graphic by UK Marine