#4537 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Red Rock Crab
Cancer productus
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
📍 Coos County, OR, USA
📍 Drakes Bay, CA, US
📍 North Pacific Ocean, CA, US
📍 Mendocino County, CA, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sara Thiebaud · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Dan Hershman · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Wendy Feltham · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Sally Anderson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Andrew Harmer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Sara Thiebaud · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Coos County, OR, USA:© John · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Drakes Bay, CA, US:© josiahclark · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. North Pacific Ocean, CA, US:© Cricket Raspet · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Mendocino County, CA, USA:© Floyd E. Hayes · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Cancer productus , one of several species known as red rock crabs , is a crab of the genus Cancer found on the western coast of North America.
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.
- 17,633 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Witt Randall in 1839 (187 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Red Rock Crab
- scientific name
- Cancer productus
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Cancridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 17,633
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1839 by John Witt Randall
relatives· Cancridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 47826, Wikidata Q5031457, GBIF 2222079, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.