Orisarma dehaani
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The kurobenkei crab has a dark body and purplish claws.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Orisarma dehaani
- Scientific name
- Orisarma dehaani
- Japanese name
- クロベンケイガニ
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Sesarmidae
- Genus
- Orisarma
It lives in Japan from Miyagi Prefecture and the Oga Peninsula south to the Ryukyu Islands, and in Korea, China and Taiwan.
In flowing rivers, it swims quickly around fallen leaves and rocks on the riverbed.
How the Orisarma dehaani lives
It hatches in summer and spends its early life drifting in water. After developing into a small crab, it comes onto land. It makes a burrow to live in.
鹿児島市Basic data
- Range
- Miyagi Prefecture, south of the Oga Peninsula, the Ryukyu Islands, South Korea, China, and Taiwan
Where the Orisarma dehaani 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 — クロベンケイガニChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鹿児島市 — クロベンケイガニChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟大学佐渡自然共生科学センター臨海実験所 — クロベンケイガニ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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