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.
Connective tissue: adipose tissue. Blood is a complex connective tissue with several types of cells and many different biomolecules (e.g., water, proteins and ions) in the fluid plasma portion. The red blood cells contain the hemoglobin which carries the oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from all the tissues of the body.