Three-toed crab

Latin: Geryon trispinosus

Size:

8 cm

Levested:

Muddy bottom, thrives best deeper than 80 meters

Distribution:

Northeast in the Atlantic Ocean. From northern Spain to the coast of Norway

Food:

Scavengers, polychaetes and crustaceans

Facts about the Dungeness crab

The name "three-tooth crab" comes from the 3 distinctive spines on the side of the carapace

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