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 also called as fluid connective tissue because it posses all the properties of connective tissue. 1  It connects various body parts with each other. 2  Forms packing around various body organs so called as packing tissue.  It is mesodermal in origin.