Actaea polyacantha Crab

Actaea polyacantha is commonly referred to as Crab. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully.

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lexID:: 13859
AphiaID:: 209021

Scientific:: Actaea polyacantha
German:: Krabbe
English:: Crab

Category:: Crabs

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Xanthidae (Family) > Actaea (Genus) > polyacantha (Species)
Initial determination:: (Heller, ), 1861

Occurrence:: Djibouti, Australia, China, French Polynesia, Gulf of Aden, Japan, Madagascar, Marschall Islands, Mozambique, Red Sea, Somalia, South-Africa, South-Pazific, Western Indian Ocean, Zanzibar
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:: 0 - 250 Meter
Size:: 2,5 cm
Temperature:: ~ 84.38 °F (29.1°C)
Food:: No reliable information available
Difficulty:: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully
Offspring:: Not available as offspring

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Actaea acantha
Actaea allisoni
Actaea angusta
Actaea areolata
Actaea arizonica
Actaea asiatica
Actaea austrokoreana
Actaea bifida
Actaea bifrons
Actaea biternata
Actaea bocki
Actaea brachycarpa
Actaea calculosa
Actaea capricornensis
Actaea carcharias
Actaea catalai
Actaea cimicifuga
Actaea dahurica
Actaea elata
Actaea europaea
Actaea flosculata
Actaea fragifera
Actaea glandifera
Actaea granulata
Actaea heracleifolia
Actaea hieroglyphica
Actaea hystrix
Actaea jacquelinae
Actaea japonica
Actaea kashmiriana
Actaea laciniata
Actaea ludovici
Actaea matsumurae
Actaea nanchuanensis
Actaea occidentalis
Actaea pachypoda
Actaea peronii
Actaea perspinosa
Actaea petalifera
Actaea picta
Actaea podocarpa
Actaea polyacantha
Krabbe
Actaea polydora
Actaea pura
Actaea purpurea
Actaea racemosa
Actaea rubifolia
Actaea rubra
Actaea sabae
Actaea savignii
Actaea semblatae
Actaea simplex
Actaea spicata
Actaea spinosissima
Actaea spongiosa
Actaea squamosa
Actaea squamulosa
Actaea taiwanensis
Actaea tessellata
Actaea vaginata
Actaea yunnanensis

More related species in this lexicon:

Actaea grimaldii
Grimaldis Krabbe

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2021-05-12 20:31:44
Last edit:: 2024-06-07 13:39:32

Info

Actaea polyacantha (Heller, 1861)

The carapace naked, the dorsal surface covered with squamiform tubercles of good size. Eyestalks with four to five tubercles. Chelipeds are symmetrical, each segment being covered with rather erect tubercles as on the carapace.

Similar to Actaea grimaldii.

Synonymised names:
Actaeodius fragifer Klunzinger, 1913
Chlorodius polyacantha Heller, 1861

External links

Marine Species Indentification Portal (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 12.05.2021.
underwaterkwaj.com (en). Abgerufen am 12.05.2021.
WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 12.05.2021.

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