Porcelain crab ID

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Anyone possibly know which kind of porcelain crab this might be? Its brown/grey on color and has those very nice orange around its pinchers.
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Looks like a black porcelain crab. There seems to be a few species under the same common name as per usual, this looks like a “flat top black” porcelain crab.
 

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Probably Petrolisthes armatus, the Green Porcelain Crab, though straight-on pics of the top of the crab under white light would help to confirm.

The orange markings can be tough to see in a lot of pics, but they're fairly visible in others; this is probably due to how the crab is holding its claws in the pics - for example, you can see in the pic below that one of the orange spots would be visible from a distance while the other likely wouldn't:
 

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