Thickclaw Porcelain Crab

Pachycheles rudis, the thickclaw porcelain crab or big-clawed porcelain crab, is a species of porcelain crab in the family Porcellanidae. It is found on the coast of the East Pacific from Baja California to Kodiak, Alaska. It is a filter feeder and may be found in "crevices, nooks, and interstices, and is often at home in the discarded and Alcyonidium-lined shells of barnacles."

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Thickclaw 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
• Porcellana platycheles
• Petrolisthes cabrilloi
• Hapalogaster cavicauda
• Petrolisthes eriomerus

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Porcellanidae

Genus

Pachycheles

Species

Pachycheles rudis

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