🦀
Japanese spider crab
Macrocheira kaempferi
Invertebrates
vs
🐙
Giant Pacific octopus
Enteroctopus dofleini
Invertebrates · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
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Giant Pacific octopus outweighs Japanese spider crab 20× — 272 kg against 13.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
14 kg
🦀 Japanese spider crab · SeaLifeBase
272 kg
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Body length
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
3 m
🐙 Giant Pacific octopus · SeaLifeBase
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
حيوانات أمام الكاميرا
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.