#4513 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Montagu's Crab
Xantho hydrophilus
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in Europe, not in NL
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what is it?
Xantho hydrophilus , the furrowed crab or Montagu's crab , is a species of crab from the family Xanthidae. 8 in). It is a nocturnal herbivore that lives in shallow marine waters from western Scotland to the Cape Verde Islands.
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.
- 3,839 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1790 (236 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Montagu's Crab
- scientific name
- Xantho hydrophilus
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Xanthidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 3,293
- sightings worldwide
- 3,839
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1790 by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst
relatives· Xanthidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 603932, Wikidata Q3021363, GBIF 5730548, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.