#4522 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

Mediterranean Green Crab

Carcinus aestuarii

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Pascal GIRARD · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
3. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
4. © thephoxinus · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Papageorgiou Nikolaos · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Japan:© Jozef K. Richards · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Odes'ka, UA-OD, UA:© Ковтун Олег · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Haifa, IL:© Dmitry Babin · CC BY 4.0
9. Općina Dobrinj, Kroatien:© Martin A. Prinz · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Holoprystans'kyi, Kherson, Ukraine:© Petro Hryniuk · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Carcinus aestuarii is a littoral crab, native to the Mediterranean Sea.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,914iNaturalist observations

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.
1,914 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Giovan Domenico Nardo in 1847 (179 years ago).