#4488 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Leach's spider crab
🇳🇱 Gladde sponspootkrab ·Inachus phalangium
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © josepvilanova · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Bernard Picton · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © poulpette · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © National Museums Northern Ireland and its licensors · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. Llançà, Catalonia, ES:© Jofre · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Girona, Cataluña, Spain:© Bernat Espigulé · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Grecia:© Mattia · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Wales, UK:© Calum McLennan · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Inachus phalangium , Leach's spider crab , is a species of crabs from the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. 81 in) wide, and is very similar to other species in the genus Inachus .
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 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,112 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Leach's spider crab
- Nederlands
- Gladde sponspootkrab
- scientific name
- Inachus phalangium
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Inachidae
- sightings in NL
- 9
- sightings in Europe
- 585
- sightings worldwide
- 1,112
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Inachidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 326067, Wikidata Q1759963, GBIF 5178705, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.