Summary ³

Ovalipes ocellatus is a species of crab from eastern North America, known as the lady crab, calico crab (not to be confused with Hepatus epheliticus) or ocellated crab. It has a shell 3 in (7.6 cm) long and only slightly wider, which is covered in clusters of purple spots. It occurs from Canada to Florida, and lives mainly on molluscs, such as the Atlantic surf clam.

Distribution ⁴

Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region); Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway) to Florida.

Habitat ⁵

infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary

Link to Access Genomic Data ⁶

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=619708&lvl=0

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Jose Nunez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Jose Nunez
2. (c) sandy richard, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/9428166@N03/2850815747
3. Adapted by Emily Rose Sharkey from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovalipes_ocellatus
4. Adapted by Emily Rose Sharkey from a work by (c) WoRMS for SMEBD, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/28471268
5. Adapted by Emily Rose Sharkey from a work by (c) WoRMS for SMEBD, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/28474496
6. (c) Emily Rose Sharkey, all rights reserved

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