It's the flap remains,
so it's the underside, which means that the actual crab must have been mahussive.
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 12:47,
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not that much bigger....
the exco-skeleton is alive like our skin and changes colour to suit enviroment, now its dead its just whiteish...
the meat was on the inside..
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war3n3xt < I'm with stupid, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 13:07,
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Oh no, it's just a small section of the underside of the female:
www.tnaqua.org/Newsroom/HighRes/SpiderCrab_popup.jpg
The flap at the bottom of that image.
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 19:24,
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