Mursia trispinosa
Amazing fact
The Mitsuha box crab has large, straight, pointed spines on the sides of its shell.
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The Mitsuha box crab has large, straight, pointed spines on the sides of its shell.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Mursia trispinosa
- Scientific name
- Mursia trispinosa
- Japanese name
- ミツハキンセンモドキ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Calappidae
- Genus
- Mursia
The "mitsuha" in its name comes from the rather large knobs on the palm part of its claws.
Basic data
- Range
- South of Sagami Bay
Where the Mursia trispinosa 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
- ミツハキンセンモドキ
- 简体中文
- 三刺筐形蟹
- 繁體中文
- 三刺筐形蟹
- 한국어
- 세가시금게붙이
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 — ミツハキンセンモドキChecked: 2026-11-04
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center — Mursia trispinosaChecked: 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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