The size of a stone crab claw is considered to be the length of the propodus. The propodus is the larger, immovable part of the claw. Legal-sized (harvestable size) claws are 70 mm (2 3/4 inches) or greater in propodus length.
Blood is called a connective tissue because it carries with it many digestive substances, oxygen from lungs, foods from small intestines and provide it to other tissues and organs of the body.
Blood is a highly specialized, fluid tissue. Blood is traditionally classified as a specialized form of connective tissue. To appreciate the basic unity of blood and other varieties of connective tissue, consider the following. 1  All of the several blood cell types originate in the connective tissue of bone marrow.Certain white blood cells, notably lymphocytes and monocytes, move freely back and forth between blood and other connective tissues.or historical reasons, a couple of the white blood cell types have two different names, depending on whether they are found in blood or in other connective tissues (monocyte in blood = macrophage in ordinary connective tissue; basophil in blood = mast cell in ordinary connective tissue). Other internet resources: