Long-eyed swimming crab
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In Southeast Asia, the long-eyed swimming crab is used as food.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Long-eyed swimming crab
- Scientific name
- Podophthalmus vigil
- Japanese name
- メナガガザミ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Portunidae
- Genus
- Podophthalmus
A member of the gazami (swimming crab) group, found from south of Sagami Bay to Taiwan, the Indian Ocean, Australia and beyond.
Basic data
- Range
- Sagami Bay and southward, Taiwan, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Hawaii, and Australia
Where the Long-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
- 日本語
- メナガガザミ
- 简体中文
- 看守长眼蟹
- 繁體中文
- 看守長眼蟹
- Français
- Crabe sentinelle
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Rajungan angin
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 — メナガガザミChecked: 2026-11-04
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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