Snow crabs, Chionoecetes opilio (O. Fabricius, 1788) (Crustacea: Majidae) have two types of spermatophore: hypotheses on the mechanism of fertilization and population reproductive dynamics in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada

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