Paromola macrochira
Amazing fact
The Tenaga-oo-homora crab carries bivalves or stones behind its shell to prevent attacks from behind.
國立自然科學博物館
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The Tenaga-oo-homora crab carries bivalves or stones behind its shell to prevent attacks from behind.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Paromola macrochira
- Scientific name
- Paromola macrochira
- Japanese name
- テナガオオホモラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Homolidae
- Genus
- Paromola
Basic data
- Range
- Tokyo Bay to Tosa Bay
Where the Paromola macrochira 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 — テナガオオホモラChecked: 2026-11-04
- 國立自然科學博物館 — 巨螯擬人面蟹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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