JAPANESE SPIDER CRAB

Macrocheira kaempferi

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• I am commonly found by the islands of Konshu and Kyushu.

• I am found between the latitudes 30 and 40 degrees north.

• They can be found in the Sagami, Suruga, and Tosa bays, as and off the coast of the Kii peninsula.

I have been found as far south as Su-ao, in Eastern Taiwan.

the Japanese giant spider crab is the largest known living arthropod.

Adults can reach nearly 4 meters long from one tip of one cheliped (a claw-bearing leg) to the other when stretched apart.

Females tend to have wider, although slightly smaller, abdomens than males.

I tend to be orange with a bunch of white spots allover my body.

Once I'm an adult I my body tends to stay the same size but my legs lengthen as I get older.

• I live at an average depth of 150m-300, but have also been found as deep as 600m.

• I can weigh any where from 16kg to 20kg.

• I can also live to be 100yrs old.

• I mainly scavenge the bottom of the ocean floor for food to find decaying carcasses.

• I am an omnivore.

• I will also feed on algae and macroalgae.

Legend say that I have been described as feeding on the bodies of drowned sailors.

This would only be true if they were dead and decomposing.

• I am about 30lbs and I am 40yrs old.

• They call me crabzilla I was captured and am now at an aquarium.

• I am the largest live captured spider crab today.

• This is a large male spider carb.

• It can reach about 12ft front the tip of the pincher to the body of the crab.

• I usually mate in the early spring between January and April.

• I can lay up to about 1,500,000 eggs a season.

Random facts

• I usually scavenge for food alone.

• I am harmless to humans do to my small pinchers.

• I am not endangered but am heavily fish and sold.

• I am a very expensive delicacy in japan.

• only around 75% survive the first zoeal stage.

• This number drops to around 33% for the second zoeal and megalopa stages.

• Which means not may survive past the first few months of their early months.

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