JAPANESE SHORE CRAB

Japanese Shore Crab, Asian Shore Crab: University of Rhode Island's Office of Marine Programs
    http://omp.gso.uri.edu/doee/biota/invasive/1.htm
This site provide a brief information about Japanese Shore Crab.

Save the Bay (Japanese Shore Crab): The Bay's Uninvited Guest, by Mac Richardson, Save the Bay 
    http://www.savebay.org/aboutus/winter_01/html/creature_feature.htm
This site provides scientific information about the the Japanese Shore Crab from researchers who live in affected areas.

A Quick Guide to Marine Bioinvaders, MIT Sea Grant College
    http://web.mit.edu/seagrant/bioinvade/japcrab.html
This site provides information about the Japanese Shore Crab and offers links for other information about marine bioinvaders.

 Japanese Shore Crab: Department of Marine Resource 
     http://www.state.me.us/dmr/rm/asian_shore_crab.htm
The website includes very detailed information about the crab such as description, habitat, differences between the Japanese crab and European green crab. This site shows very good images.

 A Shore thing: Undergraduate Researcher Studies Crustacean Invasion: Univ. of Delaware 
    http://ag.udel.edu/departments/communications/Publications/Outreach/Spring2001/shorething.htm
This site introduces Tallamy's graduate study about the life cycle of the Japanese shore crab. She was a senior wildlife conservation major in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Three new Exotic Species of the Chesapeake and Coastal Regions: Maryland Recreational Fisheries    
    http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/recreational/articles/3exoticspp.html
This site provides three exotic species have been detected and identified in Maryland's coastal waters and in the lower Chesapeake: the European green crab, the Japanese shore crab, and the veined rapa whelk.

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