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Coconut crab
Birgus latro
Invertebrates · Vulnerable
vs
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Japanese spider crab
Macrocheira kaempferi
Invertebrates
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Japanese spider crab outweighs Coconut crab 3.4× — 13.6 kg against 4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4 kg
🦀 Coconut crab · SeaLifeBase
14 kg
🦀 Japanese spider crab · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
40 yr
🦀 Coconut crab · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
카메라에 담긴 동물들
이 사이트에 실린 동물들의 실제 영상 — 사냥하고, 싸우고, 그냥 하루를 살아가는 모습까지 담았어요.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Pleocyemata (suborder), home to 19,179 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.