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Japanese Spider Crab (Macrocheira kaempferi)🦀

Photo: Lycaon (Hans Hillewaert) · CC BY 2.5

SpeciesDecapodaMacrocheiridae
Invertebrates

🦀Japanese spider crab

Macrocheira kaempferi (Temminck, 1836)

El cangrejo gigante japonés (タカアシガニ , takāshigani?, lit. "Cangrejo de patas largas") (Macrocheira kaempferi) es una especie de crustáceo decápodo del infraorden Brachyura. Pertenece al grupo de los centollos, que se caracterizan por su caparazón triangular y sus largas patas, si se toma la distancia entre la punta de sus patas, se puede considerar el artrópodo más largo que haya existido, siendo esta de más de 4 metros superando a Arthropleura de 3 metros de largo.

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Photos
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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/5th of your weight
Also called
Japanese spider crabs
Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Macrocheira kaempferi yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
14 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Japanese spider crab

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
14 kgmaximum recorded
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Carapace width
0.3 mmaximum recorded, carapace width
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Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
14 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Japanese spider crab yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classMalacostraca
  4. ›orderDecapoda
  5. ›familyMacrocheiridae
  6. ›genusMacrocheira
  7. ›speciesMacrocheira kaempferi
Full lineage
  1. classCrabs, shrimp & kin · Malacostraca
  2. orderCrabs, lobsters & shrimp · Decapoda
  3. subfamilyInachinae
  4. genusMacrocheira
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classCrabs, shrimp & kin · Malacostraca
  4. subclassEumalacostraca
  5. superorderEucarida
  6. orderCrabs, lobsters & shrimp · Decapoda
  7. suborderPleocyemata
  8. infraorderBrachyura
  9. superfamilyMajoidea
  10. familyInachidae
  11. subfamilyInachinae
  12. genusMacrocheira
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In other languages
帝王蟹 (zh), タカアシガニ (ja), Japoński krab pacyficzny (pl), סרטן עכביש יפני (he), Macrocheira kaempferi (fr), Macrocheira kaempferi (es) … and 23 more languages
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Japanese Spider Crab (Macrocheira kaempferi)Description in the image.71-1422 Spider crabs Japan 1971
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