Can you be more specific on what you are trying to say?
there is copper in its blood
Typically Hermit crab blood is blue, but at times it can be clear.
Horseshoe crab's blood is blue.
Horse Shoe Crab.
The Horseshoe crab has blue blood.
Horseshoe crab blood is blue because it has copper in it instead of iron like human blood. Our blood is blue inside and turns red when it hits air. Horseshoe crab blood is red inside and turns blue when it hits air. It's the other way around.
Yes. All crabs have blue blood, not just the species known as the blue crab. The reason for the blue blood is that crabs do not have haemoglobin, which is found in the blood of vertebrates, and which is red due to the iron molecule in the centre of the protein. Instead, crabs have a protein called hemocyanin, which contains a copper molecule. This is particularly pronounced in the horseshoe crab, the blood of which is a stronger blue than other species.
You need to be more specific in what type of blue crab you are referring to. There are at least three different species of crab commonly known as blue crab.Atlantic Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus)Blue Crab (Portunus pelgaicus)Japanese Blue Crab (Portunus trituberculatus)
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they do not have red blood cells/corpuscles like other animals. there is one variety of crab which has blue blood called Horseshoe crab, which they use it for medicinal purpose. Woodlice along with most other crustaceans including the horseshoe crab have the compound haemocyanin in their blood. Haemocycanin carries oxygen in the same way that haemoglobin does in mammals. Haemocycanin contains a copper atom instead of the iron atom found in haemogobin. The blood is pale blue when it is carrying oxygen and colourless when it is not carrying oxygen. hope this will solve your problems. hannah
A horseshoe crab. Its blood is actually blue, due to using copper in its blood, whereas most other organisms use iron.
A horseshoe crab. Its blood is actually blue, due to using copper in its blood, whereas most other organisms use iron.