#4568 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Bowed Fiddler Crab
Tubuca arcuata
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
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- 1. © 葉子 · CC0
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- 3. © maxliang · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © lava_chen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Kevin Chiang · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 9. © Me, Miyagi! · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
Tubuca arcuata , the bowed fiddler crab , is a species of fiddler crab in the family Ocypodidae. It can be found in China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.
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.
- 5,114 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Bowed Fiddler Crab
- scientific name
- Tubuca arcuata
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Ocypodidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,114
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Ocypodidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 555975, Wikidata Q107086649, GBIF 9507585, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.