japanese spider crab
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Macrocheira kaempferi. Japanese spider crab. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-21849943. I am commonly found by the islands of Konshu and Kyushu. I am found between the latitudes 30 and 40 degrees north. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
JAPANESE SPIDER CRAB
Macrocheira kaempferi
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-21849943
• I am commonly found by the islands of Konshu and Kyushu.
• I am found between the latitudes 30 and 40 degrees north.
• They can be found in the Sagami, Suruga, and Tosa bays, as and off the coast of the Kii peninsula.
I have been found as far south as Su-ao, in Eastern Taiwan.
the Japanese giant spider crab is the largest known living arthropod.
Adults can reach nearly 4 meters long from one tip of one cheliped (a claw-bearing leg) to the other when stretched apart.
Females tend to have wider, although slightly smaller, abdomens than males.
I tend to be orange with a bunch of white spots allover my body.
Once I'm an adult I my body tends to stay the same size but my legs lengthen as I get older.
• I live at an average depth of 150m-300, but have also been found as deep as 600m.
• I can weigh any where from 16kg to 20kg.
• I can also live to be 100yrs old.
• I mainly scavenge the bottom of the ocean floor for food to find decaying carcasses.
• I am an omnivore.
• I will also feed on algae and macroalgae.
Legend say that I have been described as feeding on the bodies of drowned sailors.
This would only be true if they were dead and decomposing.
• I am about 30lbs and I am 40yrs old.
• They call me crabzilla I was captured and am now at an aquarium.
• I am the largest live captured spider crab today.
• This is a large male spider carb.
• It can reach about 12ft front the tip of the pincher to the body of the crab.
• I usually mate in the early spring between January and April.
• I can lay up to about 1,500,000 eggs a season.
Random facts• I usually scavenge for food alone.
• I am harmless to humans do to my small pinchers.
• I am not endangered but am heavily fish and sold.
• I am a very expensive delicacy in japan.
• only around 75% survive the first zoeal stage.
• This number drops to around 33% for the second zoeal and megalopa stages.
• Which means not may survive past the first few months of their early months.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macrocheira_kaempferi.jpg
• http://eol.org/pages/2924326/details
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-21849943