#4442 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

Pennant's Swimming Crab

🇳🇱 Breedpootkrab ·Portumnus latipes

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Philippe Geniez · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Josué Amoroso · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © frahome · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Octávio Mateus · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. North Sea, South Holland, NL:© Colton Veltkamp · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Netherlands:© Max Willems · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. North Sea, South Holland, NL:© banjo2620 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 1951 LA Velsen-Noord, Netherlands:© Max Willems · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Strand Noordwijk aan Zee, Саут-Холланн, NL:© elenastillek · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

De breedpootkrab ( Portumnus latipes ) is een krab uit de familie Carcinidae, die voor de Nederlandse en Belgische kust vrij algemeen wordt aangetroffen op fijnzandige bodems.

base stats

NL sightings 434iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,740iNaturalist observations

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 434 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #7 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
1,740 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.