🦀
Japanese spider crab
Macrocheira kaempferi
Invertebrates
vs
🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
3 clips name both of them
1.3 million views between them.
Sharks outweigh Japanese spider crab 390× — 5,366 kg against 13.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
14 kg
🦀 Japanese spider crab · SeaLifeBase
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🦀 Japanese spider crab
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
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.