Violet-eyed Swimming Crab
Amazing fact
The Violet-eyed Swimming Crab has rear legs with broadened ends for swimming.
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The Violet-eyed Swimming Crab has rear legs with broadened ends for swimming.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Violet-eyed Swimming Crab
- Scientific name
- Carupa tenuipes
- Japanese name
- カルパガザミ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Portunidae
- Genus
- Carupa
It lives in seas south of Tokyo Bay, across the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific, and in the Red Sea.
Basic data
- Size
- Carapace width: about 5 cm
- Range
- South of Tokyo Bay, the Indo-West Pacific, and the Red Sea
Where the Violet-eyed Swimming 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
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 — カルパガザミChecked: 2026-11-04
- CIESM – The Mediterranean Science Commission — Carupa tenuipesChecked: 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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