#4493 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Thumbnail Crab
🇳🇱 Nagelkrab ·Thia scutellata
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © bathyporeia · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © bathyporeia · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © bathyporeia · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Ecomare/Sytske Dijksen · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Jersey:© petermark1 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Netherlands:© Max Willems · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Wassenaar, Netherlands:© Max Willems · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. La Rocque:© Chris Isaacs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Seymour:© Chris Isaacs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Seymour:© Chris Isaacs · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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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 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 27 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by William Elford Leach in 1815 (211 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Thumbnail Crab
- Nederlands
- Nagelkrab
- scientific name
- Thia scutellata
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Carcinidae
- sightings in NL
- 7
- sightings in Europe
- 24
- sightings worldwide
- 27
- GBIF records in NL
- 38,403
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1815 by William Elford Leach
relatives· Carcinidae
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🇳🇱 Strandkrab
Carcinus maenas
👀 1.8k in NL
#4442 📷 10Pennant's Swimming Crab
🇳🇱 Breedpootkrab
Portumnus latipes
👀 434 in NL
#4444 📷 10Velvet Swimming Crab
🇳🇱 Fluwelen zwemkrab
Necora puber
👀 306 in NL
#4454 📷 10Flying Crab
🇳🇱 Gewone Zwemkrab
Polybius holsatus
👀 97 in NL
#4461 📷 10Arch-fronted Swimming Crab
🇳🇱 Gewimperde zwemkrab
Polybius navigator
👀 49 in NL
#4478 📷 10Vernal Crab
🇳🇱 Grijze zwemkrab
Polybius vernalis
👀 18 in NL
#4522 📷 10Mediterranean Green Crab
Carcinus aestuarii
🌍 1.9k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 603991, Wikidata Q2704240, GBIF 5178289, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.