Spotted porcelain crab
Amazing fact
The red spots on a spotted porcelain crab's shell vary in size and density between individuals.
沖縄美ら海水族館
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The red spots on a spotted porcelain crab's shell vary in size and density between individuals.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spotted porcelain crab
- Scientific name
- Neopetrolisthes maculatus
- Japanese name
- アカボシカニダマシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Porcellanidae
- Genus
- Neopetrolisthes
With broom-tipped legs near its mouth, it sweeps up plankton and other food to eat.
Where the Spotted porcelain crab has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アカボシカニダマシ
- 简体中文
- 红斑新岩瓷蟹
- 繁體中文
- 紅斑新岩瓷蟹
- Español
- Cangrejo porcelana
- Français
- Crabe porcelaine maculé
- Português (Brasil)
- Caranguejo-porcelana-de-anêmona
- Italiano
- Granchio porcellana
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — アカボシカニダマシChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — アカホシカニダマシChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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