name: Snow Crab

flavor_db_name_variants: snow crab

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Snow crab

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name_scientific: Chionoecetes opilio

description: Chionoecetes is a genus of crabs that live in the northern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Other names for crabs in this genus include "queen crab" (in Canada) and "spider crab" - they are known by different names in different areas of the world. The generic name Chionoecetes means (χιών, chion) inhabitant (οιχητης, oiketes); 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 refers to them being commonly found in cold northern oceans. Snow crab are caught as far north as the Arctic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Greenland and north of Norway 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.

itis_id: 98428

wikipedia_id: Snow_crab

picture_file_name: 533.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 60656

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:43:05.000Z

legacy_id: 560

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Crustaceans

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:47.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:26.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 41210

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00522