#4475 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Long-clawed Porcelain Crab
🇳🇱 Glad porseleinkrabbetje ·Pisidia longicornis
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Pisidia longicornis , the long-clawed porcelain crab , is a species of porcelain crab that lives in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean. 4 in). It was first named by Carl Linnaeus in 1767, although the etymology remains unclear.
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 20 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #40 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
- 1,129 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Long-clawed Porcelain Crab
- Nederlands
- Glad porseleinkrabbetje
- scientific name
- Pisidia longicornis
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Porcellanidae
- sightings in NL
- 20
- sightings in Europe
- 1,091
- sightings worldwide
- 1,129
- GBIF records in NL
- 36,329
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Porcellanidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 622518, Wikidata Q3389241, GBIF 5178356, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.