Hi Warren, thanks for your report! The five lighter color crabs you identified in your report as Dungeness are juvenile red rock crabs. A defining feature to identify between these two species is the protruding rostrum between the eyes of red rock crabs which all the crabs in this molt search photo have. I have updated your report to reflect the species update. Happy molt searching!
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Hi Warren, thanks for your report! The five lighter color crabs you identified in your report as Dungeness are juvenile red rock crabs. A defining feature to identify between these two species is the protruding rostrum between the eyes of red rock crabs which all the crabs in this molt search photo have. I have updated your report to reflect the species update. Happy molt searching!