Inachus phalangium

Tags: Crustacean.

Inachus phalangium Leach’s spider crab is a species of crab from the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. It is up to 20.5 mm (0.81 in) wide and is very similar to other species in the genus Inachus.

binomial authority

Johan Christian Fabricius

class

Malacostraca

family

Inachidae

genus

Inachus (genus)

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda, Crab

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*, *Cancer satuak (Herbst 1782), *Cancer tribulus (Linnaeus 1767) – suppressed, *Inachus dorynchus (Leach 1814), *Macropus aracnides (Risso 1816), *Cancer phalangium (Fabricius 1775) – nomen protectum