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Chinese Mitten Crab
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC, United States
Chinese Mitten Crab or Eriocheir sinensis. Collected June 9, 2006 in a commercial crab pot by Captain John Delp of the fishing vessel "Bodaceous" in 15-17 feet of water roughly midway between Bodkin Point and Seven Foot Knoll (Chesapeake Bay/Patapsco River, Maryland) using menhaden as bait.
The specimen was donated by John Delp to the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) for study, with the understanding that SERC would transfer/donate it to the National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology collection for inclusion in the collections.
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- Title: Chinese Mitten Crab
- Location: mouth of Patapasco River, roughly midway bewteen Bodkin Point and Seven Foot Knoll, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States, North Atlantic Ocean
- Type: Crab
- Rights: This image was obtained from the Smithsonian Institution. The image or its contents may be protected by international copyright laws. http://www.si.edu/termsofuse
- External Link: View this object record in the Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center
- USNM Catalog Number(s): 1092253
- Scientific Name: <i>Eriocheir sinensis</i>
- Photo Credit: James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
- Field: Invertebrate Zoology
- Date Collected: 2006-06-09
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