Hi Rhea, thanks for your report! All of the crabs in the report photo are red rock crabs. While similar to Dungeness in that they both have 10 marginal teeth on each side of their carapace, the shape of red rock crab marginal teeth are wider/scalloped when compared to the sharp marginal teeth of Dungies. Here is a link to the Molt Search ID guide to further illustrate the difference in marginal teeth shape (https://wsg.washington.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Molt-Search-ID-Guide-compressed.pdf). I have updated your report to reflect the updated ID. Happy Molt Searching! –Elyse Kelsey (WSG Crab Team)
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Hi Rhea, thanks for your report! All of the crabs in the report photo are red rock crabs. While similar to Dungeness in that they both have 10 marginal teeth on each side of their carapace, the shape of red rock crab marginal teeth are wider/scalloped when compared to the sharp marginal teeth of Dungies. Here is a link to the Molt Search ID guide to further illustrate the difference in marginal teeth shape (https://wsg.washington.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Molt-Search-ID-Guide-compressed.pdf). I have updated your report to reflect the updated ID. Happy Molt Searching! –Elyse Kelsey (WSG Crab Team)