#4563 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Speckled Swimming Crab
Arenaeus cribrarius
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
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what is it?
Arenaeus cribrarius , the speckled swimming crab , is a species of swimming crab in the family Portunidae. It is found in Western Atlantic Ocean.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,646 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Speckled Swimming Crab
- scientific name
- Arenaeus cribrarius
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Portunidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,646
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Portunidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 122198, Wikidata Q4470133, GBIF 2225554, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.