#4462 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Hairy Porcelain Crab
🇳🇱 Harig porseleinkrabbetje ·Porcellana platycheles
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Jacobahaven, 4675 RB Netherlands
📍 4401 NT Yerseke, Netherlands
📍 Zeelandbrug, Zierikzee, Netherlands
📍 Nederland
📍 Schouwen-Duiveland, Pays-Bas
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ondřej Radosta · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Calum McLennan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Jacobahaven, 4675 RB Netherlands:© dr. Werner de Gier · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 4401 NT Yerseke, Netherlands:© Max Willems · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Zeelandbrug, Zierikzee, Netherlands:© Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Nederland:© Ruben Vermeule · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Schouwen-Duiveland, Pays-Bas:© Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Porcellana platycheles , sometimes called the broad-clawed porcelain crab , is a species of porcelain crab. 59 in), and is found in the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. It is a filter-feeding crab and it feeds on carrion and other organic debris.
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 48 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #27 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
- 3,964 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Pennant in 1777 (249 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Hairy Porcelain Crab
- Nederlands
- Harig porseleinkrabbetje
- scientific name
- Porcellana platycheles
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Porcellanidae
- sightings in NL
- 48
- sightings in Europe
- 3,762
- sightings worldwide
- 3,964
- GBIF records in NL
- 745
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1777 by Thomas Pennant
relatives· Porcellanidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 130089, Wikidata Q3908455, GBIF 5178358, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.