#4510 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Warty Crab
Eriphia verrucosa
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © luismartinezartola · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Paulo Pereira · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © cccrll · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Nicola Simoncini · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Adriatic Sea, 08, HR:© Melita · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Marche, Italy:© gabry1_ · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Eriphia verrucosa , sometimes called the warty crab or yellow crab , is a species of crab found in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores. Individual crabs have been caught as far north as Cornwall. Formerly a frequent species in the Black Sea, it has decreased in numbers since the 1980s and is now listed in the Ukrainian Red Data Book of endangered species.
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.
- 6,670 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Forsskål in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Warty Crab
- scientific name
- Eriphia verrucosa
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Eriphiidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 5,734
- sightings worldwide
- 6,670
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Peter Forsskål
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 128834, Wikidata Q720597, GBIF 5968755, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.