Neopetrolisthes spinatus Spiny Porcelain Crab

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Neopetrolisthes spinatus (Spiny Porcelain Crab) - Flores, 2012

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lexID:: 7401
AphiaID:: 410113

Scientific:: Neopetrolisthes spinatus
German:: Dorniger Porzellankrebs
English:: Spiny Porcelain Crab

Category:: Anomura
Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Porcellanidae (Family) > Neopetrolisthes (Genus) > spinatus (Species)
Initial determination:: Osawa & Fujita, 2001

Occurrence:: India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Okinawa, Queensland, South Australia, Taiwan, the Andaman Sea
Sea depth:: 5 - 20 Meter
Size:: up to 0.39" (1 cm)
Temperature:: 68 °F - 80.6 °F (20°C - 27°C)
Food:: Plankton
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:

Neopetrolisthes spinatus
Dorniger Porzellankrebs

More related species in this lexicon:

Neopetrolisthes maculatus
Fleckentupfen-Porzellankrebs, Anemonen-Porzellankrebs

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2014-07-27 13:31:13
Last edit:: 2019-08-13 22:24:13

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Neopetrolisthes spinatus Osawa & Fujita, 2001

The whitish carapace is covered with numerous, small reddish purple dots.The Spiny Porcelain Crab often found on the sea anemone Heteractis malu. It lives at depths of 5–20 m.

Porcelain crabs are filter feeders. They have feather-like mouthpart appendages and eats planktonic food.

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder) > Galatheoidea (Superfamily) > Porcellanidae (Family) > Neopetrolisthes (Genus)

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