View Single Post
  #4 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
-L.[_2_] -L.[_2_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,180
Default Stone Crab Claws vs Jonah Crab Claws


Steve Wertz wrote:
> Did some digging and found this:
> http://www.foodsubs.com/Shelfishcrab.html
>
> -sw


That site says snow crab=tanner crab. I though "snow crab" was
exclusively the opilio spp. Tanner crabs are a different species and
typically much smaller. Do they both go by the moniker "snow crab"?
Here's a pic of the differences:
http://blueocean.org/seafood/species/36.html
It's not really clear by what's on the above site, either.

-L.