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Carcinus maenas 07.2025 (4)🦀

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SpeciesDecapodaCarcinidae
Arthropods

🦀European green crab

Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758)

O caranguejo-verde (nome científico: Carcinus maenas) é um pequeno caranguejo (decápodes) de coloração esverdeada pertencente à família dos portunídeos (Portunidae). Está na décima oitava posição na lista de 100 das espécies exóticas invasoras mais daninhas do mundo. É nativo do nordeste do Oceano Atlântico e do Mar Báltico, mas colonizou habitats semelhantes na Austrália, África do Sul, América do Sul e nas costas dos Oceanos Atlântico e Pacífico da América do Norte. Cresce até uma largura de carapaça de 90 milímetros (3,5 polegadas) e se alimenta de uma variedade de moluscos e pequenos crustáceos, afetando potencialmente às atividades pesqueiras.

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Also called
Carcinus maenas, Common shore crab
Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Carcinus maenas yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
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Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
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Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
7 years
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Everything we know about the European green crab

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Maximum lifespan
7 yearsmaximum recorded
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Carapace length
0.04 mtypical adult, carapace length
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.06 mSeaLifeBasev25.04

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classMalacostraca
  4. ›orderDecapoda
  5. ›familyCarcinidae
  6. ›genusCarcinus
  7. ›speciesCarcinus maenas
Full lineage
  1. classCrabs, shrimp & kin · Malacostraca
  2. orderCrabs, lobsters & shrimp · Decapoda
  3. subfamilyCarcininae
  4. genusCarcinus
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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. familyCarcinidae
  10. subfamilyCarcininae
  11. genusCarcinus
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In other languages
strandkrabbe (nb), strandkrab (nl), rantataskurapu (fi), Carcinus maenas (pt), 普通濱蟹 (zh), Raczyniec jadalny (pl) … and 16 more languages
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