Tasmanian giant crab
Amazing fact
Male Tasmanian giant crabs have a claw that is much bigger than the other.
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Male Tasmanian giant crabs have a claw that is much bigger than the other.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Tasmanian giant crab
- Scientific name
- Pseudocarcinus gigas
- Japanese name
- タスマニアンキングクラブ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Pseudocarcinidae
- Genus
- Pseudocarcinus
How the Tasmanian giant crab lives
It lives in deep water at the edge of the continental shelf. It eats starfish, hermit crabs and molluscs, among other animals. Females carry the eggs they have laid on their bodies. After hatching, the larvae spend a stage of their lives drifting in the sea.
Fishing TasmaniaInstitute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of TasmaniaBasic data
- Range
- Southwestern Australia and waters around Tasmania
Where the Tasmanian giant 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
- タスマニアンキングクラブ
- 简体中文
- 拟滨蟹属
- 繁體中文
- 擬濱蟹屬
- Español
- Cangrejo gigante de Tasmania
- Français
- Crabe géant de Tasmanie
- Italiano
- Granchio gigante della Tasmania
- Tiếng Việt
- Cua Tasmania
- Русский
- Гигантский тасманийский краб
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 — タスマニアンキングクラブChecked: 2026-11-04
- Fishing Tasmania — Giant CrabChecked: 2026-11-07
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania — Giant Crab BiologyChecked: 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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