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Japanese Spider Crab (Macrocheira kaempferi)🦀

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SpeciesDecapodaMacrocheiridae
Invertebrates

🦀Japanese spider crab

Macrocheira kaempferi (Temminck, 1836)

甘氏巨螯蟹（學名：Macrocheira kaempferi），有时被称作“杀人蟹”，是已知世界上現存体型最大的甲殼動物、十足目短尾下目蜘蛛蟹總科巨螯蟹屬唯一的現存種。

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Photos
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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/5th of your weight
Also called
Japanese spider crabs
Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Macrocheira kaempferi yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
14 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

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 mass
14 kgmaximum recorded
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Carapace width
0.3 mmaximum recorded, carapace width
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Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
14 Laverage
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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.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classMalacostraca
  4. ›orderDecapoda
  5. ›familyMacrocheiridae
  6. ›genusMacrocheira
  7. ›speciesMacrocheira kaempferi
Full lineage
  1. classCrabs, shrimp & kin · Malacostraca
  2. orderCrabs, lobsters & shrimp · Decapoda
  3. subfamilyInachinae
  4. genusMacrocheira
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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. superfamilyMajoidea
  10. familyInachidae
  11. subfamilyInachinae
  12. genusMacrocheira
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In other languages
帝王蟹 (zh), タカアシガニ (ja), Japoński krab pacyficzny (pl), סרטן עכביש יפני (he), Macrocheira kaempferi (fr), Macrocheira kaempferi (es) … and 23 more languages
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Japanese Spider Crab (Macrocheira kaempferi)Description in the image.71-1422 Spider crabs Japan 1971
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