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The Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) is a species of marine crab and is the biggest one that lives in the waters around Japan. At around 3.7 meters, it has the largest leg-span of any arthropod. The Japanese name for this species is taka-ashi-gani, (Japanese: タカアシガニ), literally translating to “tall legs crab”.
Trichonephila clavata, also known as the Joro-spider(ジョロウグモ, Jorō-gumo), is a spiderin the Trichonephilagenus. Native to East Asia, it is found throughout China, Japan(except Hokkaidō), Korea, and Taiwan, and has been spreading across North Americasince the 2010s. It rarely bites humans, and its venomis not deadly.
Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi), the largest living species of crab, found on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Libinia emarginata, the portly spider crab, a species of crab found in estuarine habitats on the east coast of North America. Hyas, a genus of spider crabs, including the great spider crab (Hyas araneus), found in the ...
Huntsman spider. Huntsman spiders, members of the family Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae), are known by this name because of their speed and mode of hunting. [citation needed] They catch their prey by hunting rather than in webs. [ 3 ] They are also called giant crab spiders because of their size and appearance.
Decorator crab. The graceful decorator crab, Oregonia gracilis. Decorator crabs are crabs of several different species, belonging to the superfamily Majoidea (not all of which are decorators), that use materials from their environment to hide from, or ward off, predators. They decorate themselves by sticking mostly sedentary animals and plants ...
Macropodia rostrata, common names, the common spider crab, long-legged spider crab, long-legged crab, is a species of marine crab in the family Inachidae. [1] The Macropodia Rostrata visually mimics many other types of small crabs with the exception of its long legs. By attaching algae to their thin legs, they can be confused with the stem of ...
Maja squinado (the European spider crab, spiny spider crab or spinous spider crab) is a species of migratory crab found in the north-east Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. [1] The appearance of the European spider crab is similar to the much larger Japanese spider crab, although the European spider crab belongs to the family Majidae, and the ...
Selenopidae, also called wall crab spiders, wall spiders[1] and flatties, [2] is a family of nocturnal, free-ranging, araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. [3][4] It contains over 281 species in nine genera, of which Selenops is the most well-known. This family is just one of several families whose English name includes ...