Goneplax rhomboides Angular crab

Goneplax rhomboides is commonly referred to as Angular crab. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

13436 

AphiaID:

107292 

Scientific:

Goneplax rhomboides 

German:

Stielaugenkrabbe 

English:

Angular Crab 

Category:

Crabs 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Goneplacidae (Family) > Goneplax (Genus) > rhomboides (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1758 

Occurrence:

Tunesien, West Sahara, Straße von Gibraltar, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean), Albania, Algeria, Balearic Islands, Cyprus, Danmark, East-Atlantic Ocean, Egypt, France, Greece, Iceland, Invasive Species, Ionian Sea (Mediterranean), Israel, Italy, Madeira, Malta, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scandinavia, Senegal, Slovenia, South-Africa, Spain, Sweden, the British Isles, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, Turkey, Tyrrhenian Sea (Mediterranean Sea), West Africa 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

3 - 750 Meter 

Habitats:

Muddy grounds, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

0.39" - 1.18" (1,8cm - 3,4cm) 

Temperature:

43.34 °F - 58.64 °F (6.3°C - 14.8°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Carrion, Worms, Zoobenthos, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Goneplax barnardi
• Goneplax clevai
• 
  Goneplax rhomboides
  Stielaugenkrabbe
• Goneplax sigsbei

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2020-12-14 16:15:52 

Last edit:

2024-02-26 19:57:11 

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