Chionoecetes Totally Explained

Everything about Snow Crab totally explained

Chionoecetes is a genus of crabs that live in the cold waters of the northern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans .
   Other names for crabs in this genus include "queen crab" (in Canada) and "spider crab" - they're known by different names in different areas of the world.
   The generic name Chionoecetes means snow (chio) inhabitant (ioketes); opilio means shepherd, and C. opilio is the primary species referred to as snow crab. Marketing strategies, however, employ snow crab for anything in the genus Chionoecetes.
   Snow crab are caught as far north as the Arctic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Greenland in the Atlantic Ocean, and across the Pacific Ocean, including the Sea of Japan, the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, Norton Sound, and even as far south as California for Chionoecetes bairdi. Fishing for opilio (and rarely bairdi) crab has been the focus of the second half of all three seasons of Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel.

Species

Triangle tanner crab, Chionoecetes angulatus
Tanner crab or bairdi, Chionoecetes bairdi
Snow crab or opilio, Chionoecetes opilio (O. Frabricius, 1788)
Beni-zuwai crab, Chionoecetes japonicus
Grooved tanner crab, Chionoecetes tanneri

Further Information

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