🦀Japanese spider crab
Macrocheira kaempferi (Temminck, 1836), conhecido pelos nomes comuns de caranguejo-gigante-japonês takaashigani (高脚蟹; lit. "caranguejo-de-pernas-longas") e caranguejo-aranha-gigante, é uma espécie de caranguejo, considerada o maior artrópode extante conhecido, que chega a atingir uma envergadura, medida com as patas esticadas, de 3,8 metros e um peso de 19 kg. Ocorre nas águas profundas do Oceano Pacífico, sendo relativamente abundante nas águas do Mar do Japão, onde é objeto de pescaria comercial, embora pouco expressiva.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Macrocheira kaempferi yet.
- Body mass
- 14 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
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 mass14 kgmaximum recordedSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Carapace width0.3 mmaximum recorded, carapace widthSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Danger to humansharmlessSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l14 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classMalacostraca
- ›orderDecapoda
- ›familyMacrocheiridae
- ›genusMacrocheira
- ›speciesMacrocheira kaempferi
- classCrabs, shrimp & kin · Malacostraca
- orderCrabs, lobsters & shrimp · Decapoda
- subfamilyInachinae
- genusMacrocheira
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- classCrabs, shrimp & kin · Malacostraca
- subclassEumalacostraca
- superorderEucarida
- orderCrabs, lobsters & shrimp · Decapoda
- suborderPleocyemata
- infraorderBrachyura
- superfamilyMajoidea
- familyInachidae
- subfamilyInachinae
- genusMacrocheira
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