Platepistoma anaglyptum
Amazing fact
Platepistoma anaglyptum appears to have a habit of hiding in gaps in wood that has sunk to the seafloor.
鳥羽水族館
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Its name ("brain ichou crab") comes from the pattern on its back, which looks like a brain.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Platepistoma anaglyptum
- Scientific name
- Platepistoma anaglyptum
- Japanese name
- ノウイチョウガニ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Cancridae
- Genus
- Platepistoma
Where the name “Platepistoma anaglyptum” comes from
The “ichou” in its name refers to the ginkgo tree.
鳥羽水族館Its name ("brain ichou crab") comes from the pattern on its back, which looks like a brain.
How the Platepistoma anaglyptum lives
It lives on sandy, muddy seabeds.
鳥羽水族館Basic data
- Size
- Carapace width: about 3 cm
- Range
- Tokyo Bay and southward
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 — ノウイチョウガニChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鳥羽水族館 — ノウイチョウガニChecked: 2026-11-09
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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