#4536 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Northern Kelp Crab
Pugettia producta
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
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what is it?
Pugettia producta , known as the northern kelp crab or shield-backed kelp crab , is a species of crab in the family Epialtidae.
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.
- 17,648 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Witt Randall in 1840 (186 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Northern Kelp Crab
- scientific name
- Pugettia producta
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Epialtidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 17,648
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1840 by John Witt Randall
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49723, Wikidata Q6495091, GBIF 2226672, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.