Gaetice depressus
Amazing fact
The hiraiso crab spreads appendages by its mouth like a net and sweeps them to gather food from the water.
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The hiraiso crab spreads appendages by its mouth like a net and sweeps them to gather food from the water.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Gaetice depressus
- Scientific name
- Gaetice depressus
- Japanese name
- ヒライソガニ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Varunidae
- Genus
- Gaetice
How the Gaetice depressus lives
Juveniles also use their claws to feed. As juveniles grow, they can filter larger prey from the water. Juveniles switch between feeding with mouth appendages and claws according to prey size.
Carcinological Society of JapanBasic data
- Range
- Japan from Hokkaido southward
Where the Gaetice depressus 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
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 — ヒライソガニChecked: 2026-11-04
- 海洋委員會海洋保育署 — 平背蜞-臺灣百種海洋動物圖鑑IIChecked: 2026-11-07
- Carcinological Society of Japan — Feeding behaviour of juveniles of the varunid crab Gaetice depressus (Decapoda: Brachyura: Varunidae)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.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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