Red Crab Mug

Chaceon quinquedens, commonly known as the red deep-sea crab, but sold as Atlantic deep sea red crab, or simply Atlantic red crab or red crab is a crab that lives in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast of the United States and Canada, from North Carolina to Nova Scotia. Red Deep sea crabs (DSRC) mostly reedominate the deep continental shelf and slope along in wide range, all the way from the Northwest atlantic waters and from the gulf of maine to the gulf of mexico. where they can be found in depths of 200 to 1800 meters. DSRC on the US east coast show distinct sex segregation by depth along the continental slope and Depth.