Abstract: A utensil is provided for facilitating the opening and removal of meat from crab legs or other types of shellfish. The utensil has an elongated handle portion and a bifurcated head section joined to the handle portion and provided with separate elongated first and second tine segments disposed in spaced, directly opposed, generally parallel relationship with the space therebetween being no greater than about twice the normal thickness of the shell of the shellfish. The first tine segment has a relatively wide planar surface facing a relatively narrow, toothed surface of the second tine segment. The second tine segment is of greater length than the first tine segment.