#4525 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Lesser Spider Crab
Maja crispata
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in Europe, not in NL
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Maja crispata is een krabbensoort uit de familie van de spinkrabben (Majidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1827 gepubliceerd door Antoine Risso.
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.
- 1,595 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Antoine Risso in 1827 (199 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lesser Spider Crab
- scientific name
- Maja crispata
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Majidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,171
- sightings worldwide
- 1,595
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1827 by Antoine Risso
relatives· Majidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 326069, Wikidata Q3843584, GBIF 5178689, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.