Maja squinado: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Majidae
- Genus
- Maja
- Species
- Maja squinado
- Scientific Name
- Maja squinado
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Maja squinado
Maja squinado (the European spider crab, spiny spider crab or spinous spider crab) is a species of migratory crab found in the Mediterranean Sea. The appearance of the European spider crab is similar to the much larger Japanese spider crab, although the European spider crab belongs to the family Majidae, and the Japanese spider crab belongs to a different family of crabs, the Macrocheiridae.
...Maja squinado in languages:
- Croatian
- Rakovica
- Czech
- krab pavoučí
- Dutch
- Grote spinkrab
- English
- European Spider Crab
- English
- Spiny Spider Crab
- English
- Mediterranean Spider Crab
- French
- Araignée de mer
- German
- Große Seespinne
- Italian
- Grancevola
- Italian
- Granceola
- Lithuanian
- paprastasis vorkrabis
- Modern Greek
- Καβουρομάνα
- Portuguese
- Santola-do-mediterrâneo
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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