#4487 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Bonte waaiergarnaal
Eualus cranchii
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
📍 Saména, Marseille, France
📍 Germany
📍 Menai Strait, Menai Bridge, Wales, GB
📍 La Rocque
📍 Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, FR
📍 Bretagne, FR
📍 35800 Saint-Lunaire, France
📍 Strijenham, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France:© Pierre Corbrion · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. Saména, Marseille, France:© Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Germany:© Adi Peter · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Menai Strait, Menai Bridge, Wales, GB:© Sean Hartnett · CC BY 4.0
- 6. La Rocque:© Nicolas Jouault · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, FR:© Pierre Corbrion · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. Bretagne, FR:© randomphotos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 35800 Saint-Lunaire, France:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 10. Strijenham, Nederland:© Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Eualus cranchii is a species of broken-backed shrimp in the family Thoridae.
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
- Spotted 10 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 240 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Bonte waaiergarnaal
- scientific name
- Eualus cranchii
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Thoridae
- sightings in NL
- 10
- sightings in Europe
- 158
- sightings worldwide
- 240
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 849342, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.