On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:25:04 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 03:13:08 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>> You know, if one of you Dungeness partisans could come up with the
>> actual genus and species of the two crabs under discussion, we could
>> perhaps agree that they're different crabs with the same common name.
>
>Unlike American/Pacific sole vs Dover sole, it's pretty cut & dried
>what a dungeness is and that there no other crabs sharing that name.
>The binomial name is irrelevant here (but I'll show her mine if she
>shows me hers!).
>
>-sw

Perhaps these actually came from the Kentish coast where Dungeness is,
I really don't know. However they were very large and when I saw the
ad for NW Dungeness crab that I could have ordered, it sure looked
like the one I am familiar with. I also find it interesting that in
your NW they also refer to the traps as 'pots' as do the Plymouthians.