Porcellana sayana

Tags: Crustacean.

Porcellana sayana is a species of porcelain crab that lives in the western Atlantic Ocean often as a commensal of hermit crabs. It is red with white spots and has a characteristic bulge behind each claw.

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binomial authority

William Elford Leach

class

Malacostraca

family

Porcelain crab

genus

Porcellana

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*Porcellana ocellata (Gibbes 1850), *Porcellana robertsoni (Henderson 1888), *Porcellana sagrai (Guérin-Méneville 1855), *Porcellana sagrai (Von Martens 1872), *Porcellana sayii (Gray 1831) [misspelling], *Porcellana stimpsoni (A. Milne-Edwards 1880)