southern stone crab

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• A greyish crab, Menippe mercenaria, up to 12 cm across and with very large claws, one of which is bigger than the other. It lives in deep holes in mud or rock piles around the coast from Texas to the Carolinas. Only the claw meat is edible and often only the claws are traded.

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