Sorry, but the SF I refered to is South Florida. I only wish I lived in San
Francisco.

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"Derek Broughton" wrote in message
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bk wrote:

I will not post pictures here any longer. I now understand excatly why.
I have posted the Blue Crab picture in alt.binaries.pictures.gardens,
under the subject "Is this a Blue Crab".
Please se pic and let me know if this is the famous Maryland Blue Crab.

A thousand appologies for those still on dial up.

A quick search for "Blue Crab" on the Oceans Biogeographic Information
System - http://www.iobis.org/ (hey, it's my job - I can actually justify
playing on usenet today!), shows two Blue Crabs. Callinectes Sapidus would
be the Blue Crab found in Maryland and at various locations around the
Atlantic. The Lesser Blue Crab, Callinectes Similis, is only found in the
Gulf of Mexico area (at least as far as OBIS knows - we don't have access
to everybody's data yet, but more and more come online daily).

So we don't know of a Blue Crab in San Francisco at all, but I think it's
safe to say that whatever you call a Blue Crab, it isn't the same as the
one in Maryland.
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