Slender Spider Crab

Macropodia tenuirostris

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Inachidae

Macropodia tenuirostris, also known as the slender spider crab, is a species of marine crab in the family Inachidae. Description Adult M. tenuirostris reach a carapace breadth of 11 millimeters, and a carapace length of 16 to 32 millimeters.

Distribution

Slender Spider Crab — (Photographs by SE Anosov) Spiridonov VA, Simakova UV, Anosov SE, Zalota AK, Timofeev VA (2020) Review of Macropodia in the Black Sea supported by molecular barcoding data with the redescription of the type material, observations on ecology and epibiosis of Macropodia czernjawskii (Brandt, 1880) and notes on other Atlanto-Mediterranean species of Macropodia Leach, 1814 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Inachidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 96(2): 609-635. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.96.48342 · CC BY 4.0

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Spain · 72France · 6United Kingdom · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(Photographs by SE Anosov) Spiridonov VA, Simakova UV, Anosov SE, Zalota AK, Timofeev VA (2020) Review of Macropodia in the Black Sea supported by molecular barcoding data with the redescription of the type material, observations on ecology and epibiosis of Macropodia czernjawskii (Brandt, 1880) and notes on other Atlanto-Mediterranean species of Macropodia Leach, 1814 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Inachidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 96(2): 609-635. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.96.48342 · CC BY 4.0 DescriptionMacropodia tenuirostris, Wikipedia contributors

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