Porcellanella triloba
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Umiera porcelain crabs catch food alongside sea pens.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Porcellanella triloba
- Scientific name
- Porcellanella triloba
- Japanese name
- ウミエラカニダマシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Porcellanidae
- Genus
- Porcellanella
Basic data
- Range
- Sagami Bay and southward, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia
Where the Porcellanella triloba 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
- ウミエラカニダマシ
- 简体中文
- 三叶小瓷蟹
- 繁體中文
- 三葉小瓷蟹
- Français
- Crabe-porcelaine trilobé
- Português (Brasil)
- Caranguejo-porcelana-delicado
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 — ウミエラカニダマシChecked: 2026-11-04
- 市立しものせき水族館 海響館 — おまけがついています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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