Blue Crab Molt
Callinectes sapidus
A perfect, empty crab shell, paper light — a shed skin, not a dead crab.
- Typical size
- 3–8 in across
- How often it turns up
- Common
- Collecting
- Usually legal to collect
- Handling
- Safe to handle
Empty molts are free to collect.
How to tell it apart
- Completely hollow and very light
- Split along the rear edge of the carapace
- Blue claw tips, red on females
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