Floral egg crab
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Floral egg crabs have dark brown or black claw tips.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Floral egg crab
- Scientific name
- Atergatis floridus
- Japanese name
- スベスベマンジュウガニ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Xanthidae
- Genus
- Atergatis
Where the name “Floral egg crab” comes from
The English name “shawl crab” comes from its white pattern, which resembles a lace shawl.
Western Australian MuseumIts muscles, shell, organs and other parts contain tetrodotoxin, the same poison found in pufferfish.
Its poison is strong, and people are known to have been poisoned after eating this crab or its close relatives.
How the Floral egg crab lives
They are mainly active at night. They often hide in crevices or coral rubble. As larvae, they develop as plankton drifting in the water.
Western Australian MuseumBasic data
- Range
- Sagami Bay and Kumano Sea
Where the Floral egg 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
- スベスベマンジュウガニ
- 简体中文
- 花纹爱洁蟹
- 繁體中文
- 花紋愛潔蟹
- 한국어
- 매끈이송편게
- Español
- Cangrejo de huevo floral
- Français
- Crabe fleuri
- Deutsch
- Olivgrüne Steinkrabbe
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 — スベスベマンジュウガニChecked: 2026-11-04
- Western Australian Museum — Floral egg crab or shawl crabChecked: 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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