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  Hannah Brown

  September 16, 2026 5:53 pm

  Thanks for taking the time to do a Molt Search! Your photo with that item for scale is perfect! During the data check we do for each report, I noticed a few tricky graceful crabs that appear to have been mistaken as Dungeness. I’ve gone ahead and made some corrections based on your great photo (thanks for remembering to include that perfect item for scale). I look for that widest 10th tooth on Dungeness and distinguish them from their look-alikes by checking for the notch just beyond the widest 9th tooth of the graceful crab (which I often have to feel for with my fingernail). Here are some side-by-side images in case they can be helpful and fun to study for next time: https://wsg.washington.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/MEGRvCAPRvMEMA-Slides.pdf Always happy to take a look and offer ID support, so don’t sweat ID mixups and hope you enjoy it out there next time!

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