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The usual assortment of crustacean remains, including Carcinus maenas, Cancer irroratus, and Callinectes sapidus.
"While my feet are the trunks and my head is the canopy, high..." greygirlbeast 2009
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In amongst the wildly contorted Proterozoic strata, we spotted small fish, an assortment of hermit crabs (Pagurus spp.), small spider crabs (Libinia spp.), and a number of different taxa of cancroids, including juvenile Rock crabs (Cancer irroratus).
"Here, by the ocean, the sky's filled with leaves..." greygirlbeast 2008
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Characteristic small mammals include southern plains woodrat (Neotoma micropus), and Mexican spiny pocket mouse (Liomys irroratus).
Tamaulipan mezquital 2008
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But the larvae of the rock crab (Cancer irroratus) die if there is any less than 8.6 mg / l.
Signs of the Times 2008
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The irroratus is covered over the whole disk with dark green spotted lines, running in a sweep from the beak to the margin and lying close to each other.
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