#4474 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Black Squat Lobster
🇳🇱 Zwarte galathea ·Galathea squamifera
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 4675 RB Sint Philipsland, Nederland
📍 Zeelandbrug, Zeeland, NL
📍 4675 RB Poortvliet, Nederland
📍 Zeelandbrug, Zierikzee, Netherlands
📍 Tholen, Oosterschelde, NL-ZE, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Bernat Espigulé · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © tamsynmann · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 4675 RB Sint Philipsland, Nederland:© Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Zeelandbrug, Zeeland, NL:© Jeroen Cool · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 4675 RB Poortvliet, Nederland:© Carla van Westing · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Zeelandbrug, Zierikzee, Netherlands:© Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Tholen, Oosterschelde, NL-ZE, NL:© Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Galathea squamifera , the black squat lobster , or Montagu's plated lobster , is a species of squat lobster that lives in the north-east Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
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 21 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #38 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
- 1,355 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by William Elford Leach in 1814 (212 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Black Squat Lobster
- Nederlands
- Zwarte galathea
- scientific name
- Galathea squamifera
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Galatheidae
- sightings in NL
- 21
- sightings in Europe
- 1,267
- sightings worldwide
- 1,355
- GBIF records in NL
- 60
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1814 by William Elford Leach
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 342260, Wikidata Q3094510, GBIF 5178347, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.