Enoplolambrus validus
Amazing fact
The strong elbow crab has thick, long claw-bearing legs covered in spikes.
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The strong elbow crab has thick, long claw-bearing legs covered in spikes.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Enoplolambrus validus
- Scientific name
- Enoplolambrus validus
- Japanese name
- ヒシガニ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Parthenopidae
- Genus
- Enoplolambrus
Where the name “Enoplolambrus validus” comes from
The strong elbow crab’s Japanese name, Hishi-gani, comes from its shell resembling the fruit of the water caltrop plant.
鶴岡市立加茂水族館How the Enoplolambrus validus lives
It hides its body in the sand. When still, it looks like a rock covered in coralline algae.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海National Museum of Natural ScienceBasic data
- Range
- From the Boso Peninsula to Kyushu
Where the Enoplolambrus validus 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 — ヒシガニChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鶴岡市立加茂水族館 — ヒシガニChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ヒシガニChecked: 2026-11-07
- National Museum of Natural Science — Enoplolambrus validusChecked: 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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