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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Dungeness Crab, CancerMagister has a reddish-brown to purplish-brown carapace with white to ivorydepressions and joints. It is most often found on sandy or muddy bottoms insubtidal regions and in eelgrass beds ranging from the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, to Santa Barbara, California. Here it is in the mud-molt stage.