Porcellana platycheles, the broad-clawed porcelain crab, is a species of porcelain crab from the family Porcellanidae. It is found on the coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Hairy Porcelain Crab being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Pachycheles pubescens
- Pachycheles rudis
- Lomis hirta
- Hapalogaster cavicauda
- Petrolisthes novaezelandiae
- Pilumnus lumpinus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Porcellanidae
- Genus
- Porcellana
- Species
- Porcellana platycheles
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