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.
Tissue fluid is similar to blood, but doesnât contain most of the cells found in blood, nor does it contain plasma proteins. The role of tissue fluid is to transport and nutrients from the blood to the cells, and to carry carbon dioxide and other. wastes back to the blood. When an artery reaches the tissues it branches out into smaller. arterioles, then into a network of capillaries which eventually link up.