One of the best known species is the Florida stone crab.

The male Florida stone crab must wait for the female to molt her exoskeleton before they can mate.

Florida stone crabs are legal for harvest from October 15 until May 15.

The Florida stone crab is usually fished near jetties, oyster reefs or other rocky areas, just as for blue crabs.

The Florida stone crab loses its limbs easily to escape from predators or tight spaces, but their limbs will grow back.

One amusing tidbit Mr. Davidson has produced concerns the Florida stone crab.

One crab that is subject to widespread declawing is the Florida stone crab, for which tourist information is provided.

Florida stone crabs prefer to feed on oysters and other small mollusks, polychaete worms, and other crustaceans.

It is very closely related to the Florida stone crab, Menippe mercenaria, of which it is sometimes considered to be a sub-species.

He also ran a wholesale fish house specializing in Florida stone crab in Pass-a-Grille, Florida.

Joe's is the top buyer of Florida stone crab claws, and it plays a significant role in the industry, influencing the wholesale price and financing many crabbers.

The appetizers, with choices like Florida stone crab claws and sauteed mussels and snails with a wonderful potato hash, are all excellent.

Oyster predators include starfish, oyster drill snails, stingrays, Florida stone crabs, birds, such as oystercatchers, gulls, and humans.

Because it was Julia Child, they obeyed, and went on to enjoy a rare meal with no "Oh, can I try one of your Florida stone crab claws?"

Using their massive and powerful claws, adult Florida stone crabs (Menippe mercenaria) feed on acorn barnacles, hard-shelled clams, scallops, and conch.

Among starters on the current menu are steamers, fried calamari with a marinara sauce, Florida stone crabs, steamed mussels in white wine and garlic, and a variety of oysters.

This grand dining room offers opulent décor and ocean views from every table, while the menu features locally sourced seafood like Florida stone crab claws and Key West pink shrimp.

In a culinary way he has brought coals to Newcastle, using Florida stone crabs in the home of the famed Chesapeake blue crab and converting them into super-rich crab cakes.

While Dan Kleck, the wine maker, holds down the fort in Orlando, Robert Palmer will represent his winery in Sarasota for the Florida Stone Crab Festival.

Other popular shellfish are crab (including the Florida stone crab), which is often served baked, and the clawless spiny lobster, also known as rock lobster and sometimes referred to as crayfish.

In addition to the usual sexual dimorphism exhibited by crabs, the female Florida stone crabs have a larger carapace than males of a similar age, and males generally have larger chelae than females.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has given the Florida stone crab fishery its highest rating of "Best Choice" for maintaining high fishing standards and working hard to keep the stone crab a viable fishery.

The Florida stone crab, Menippe mercenaria, is a crab found in the western North Atlantic, from Connecticut to Belize, including Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, The Bahamas, and the East Coast.

Gifts From the Sea Joe's over in Miami takes most of the credit for Florida stone crabs, but in truth the heart of the commercial fishery for them is here, in the warm, salty Gulf water off the southwest coast.

It occurs in several fisheries worldwide, such as in the Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) fishery, the north-east Atlantic deep-water red crab (Chaceon affinis) fishery and in southern Iberia, where the major claws of the fiddler crab Uca tangeri are harvested.

Using their massive and powerful claws, adult Florida stone crabs (Menippe mercenaria) feed on acorn barnacles, hard-shelled clams, scallops, and conch.

The region supports a $59 million-a-year Tortugas pink shrimp (Farfantepenaeus duorarum) industry, and a $22 million-a-year stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) industry.

The region supports Tortugas pink shrimp (Farfantepenaeus duorarum) and stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) industries; between 80 to 90 percent of commercially harvested crustacean species in Florida's salt waters are born or spend time near the Everglades.

It occurs in several fisheries worldwide, such as in the Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) fishery, the north-east Atlantic deep-water red crab (Chaceon affinis) fishery and in southern Iberia, where the major claws of the fiddler crab Uca tangeri are harvested.