#4531 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
jaguar round crab
Xantho poressa
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Nakhimovs'kyi, UA-SC, UA
📍 Ievpatoriis'ka, UA-KR, UA
📍 Limanu, Romania
📍 Las Palmas, Spain
📍 Юж. р-н, Новороссийск, Краснодарский край, Россия
📍 Zadarska, HR
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Pierre Corbrion · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Claudia Jeannette Pérez Estrada · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Claudia Jeannette Pérez Estrada · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Иван Тисленко · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Nakhimovs'kyi, UA-SC, UA:© Соль · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Ievpatoriis'ka, UA-KR, UA:© Roman A. Lagazyuk (Роман А. Лагазюк) · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Limanu, Romania:© Zachi Mihai · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Las Palmas, Spain:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. Юж. р-н, Новороссийск, Краснодарский край, Россия:© Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky) · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Zadarska, HR:© no rights reserved · CC0
what is it?
Xantho poressa , the jaguar round crab , is a species of crab from the eastern Atlantic Ocean It is one of four species in the genus Xantho .
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.
- 1,369 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Giuseppe Olivi in 1792 (234 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- jaguar round crab
- scientific name
- Xantho poressa
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Xanthidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 974
- sightings worldwide
- 1,369
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1792 by Giuseppe Olivi
relatives· Xanthidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 544721, Wikidata Q2027269, GBIF 5178776, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.