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  • 1.  Resource for crab replicas or preserved specimens?

    Posted 01-04-2018 05:25 PM
    Looking to purchase replicas or preserved specimens / molts of mangrove tree crabs (Aratus pisonii), mudflat fiddler crab (Uca rapax), and the great land crab (Cardisoma guanhumi). 

    Any help would be appreciated! 

    Thanks :)

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    Sara Lynn Piotter, B.S., CIG
    Naturalist
    Environmental Learning Center
    Vero Beach, FL
    772.589.5050 x 111
    sarap@discoverELC.org
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  • 2.  RE: Resource for crab replicas or preserved specimens?

    Posted 01-05-2018 10:43 AM
    Cannot help you but wish to thank you for the most interesting subject line ever in Museum Junction.

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    Laura Caruso
    Director of Publications
    Denver Art Museum
    Denver CO
    Director of Publications
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  • 3.  RE: Resource for crab replicas or preserved specimens?

    Posted 01-05-2018 01:59 PM
    As I recall, when I worked for Split Rock Studios and we did the dioramas for Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, we had to make casts and manufacture these small crabs. I did some quick searches (taxidermy supply, Skulls unlimited) and  didn't find anything.


    Lisa Friedlander
    Exhibits Project Specialist
    Minnesota History Center
    345 Kellogg Blvd West
    Saint Paul, MN 55102
    651-259-3052



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  • 4.  RE: Resource for crab replicas or preserved specimens?

    Posted 01-07-2018 09:57 AM
    Hello Ms. Piotter,
    If you can get your hands on specimens and send them to me, I can make good casts for you. The only really difficult parts will be the hairs on the mud crab. Please see attached photos of casts I made of the Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) and the Black-fingered mud crab (Panopeus herbstii). Please see this page from our website for other work:

    http://up-close-realism.com/oysterbar.html

    Cordially,

    Paul Pallansch

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    Paul N. Pallansch
    Dot-Connector,
    Up-Close Realism
    Silver Spring MD
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