🦀
Japanese spider crab
Macrocheira kaempferi
Invertebrates
vs
🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
55,324 views between them.
Common bottlenose dolphin outweighs Japanese spider crab 17× — 230 kg against 13.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
14 kg
🦀 Japanese spider crab · SeaLifeBase
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
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.