Paradorippe granulata
Amazing fact
The porter crab carries a shell on its back with its rear legs to camouflage itself.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海
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The porter crab carries a shell on its back with its rear legs to camouflage itself.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Paradorippe granulata
- Scientific name
- Paradorippe granulata
- Japanese name
- サメハダヘイケガニ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Dorippidae
- Genus
- Paradorippe
How the Paradorippe granulata lives
It is active at night. During the day, it stays hidden in the sand.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Southern Hokkaido and southward
Where the Paradorippe granulata 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 — サメハダヘイケガニChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — サメハダヘイケガニ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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