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Actaea polyacantha Crab

Actaea polyacanthais commonly referred to as Crab. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic.


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lexID:
13859 
AphiaID:
209021 
Scientific:
Actaea polyacantha 
German:
Krabbe 
English:
Crab 
Category:
Crabs 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Xanthidae (Family) > Actaea (Genus) > polyacantha (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Heller, ), 1861 
Occurrence:
Djibouti, Australia, China, French Polynesia, Gulf of Aden, Japan, Madagascar, Marschall Islands, Mozambique, Red Sea, Somalia, South-Africa, South-Pazific, Western Indian Ocean, Zanzibar 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
0 - 250 Meter 
Size:
2,5 cm 
Temperature:
~ 84.38 °F (29.1°C) 
Food:
No reliable information available 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Actaea acantha
  • Actaea allisoni
  • Actaea angusta
  • Actaea areolata
  • Actaea arizonica
  • Actaea asiatica
  • Actaea austrokoreana
  • Actaea bifida
  • Actaea bifrons
  • Actaea biternata
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2021-05-21 12:22:59 

Toxicity


Actaea polyacantha is (very) poisonous and the poison can kill you under circumstances!!!
If you want to keep Actaea polyacantha, inform yourself about the poison and its effects before buying. Keep a note with the telephone number of the poison emergency call and all necessary information about the animal next to your aquarium so that you can be helped quickly in an emergency.
The telephone numbers of the poison emergency call can be found here:
[overview_and_url_DE]
Overview Worldwide: eapcct.org

This message appears for poisonous, very poisonous and also animals whose poison can kill you immediately. Every human reacts differently to poisons. Please therefore weigh the risk for yourself AND your environment very carefully, and never act lightly!

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Actaea polyacantha (Heller, 1861)

The carapace naked, the dorsal surface covered with squamiform tubercles of good size. Eyestalks with four to five tubercles. Chelipeds are symmetrical, each segment being covered with rather erect tubercles as on the carapace.

Similar to Actaea grimaldii.

Synonymised names:
Actaeodius fragifer Klunzinger, 1913
Chlorodius polyacantha Heller, 1861

External links

  1. Marine Species Indentification Portal (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 12.05.2021.
  2. underwaterkwaj.com (en). Abgerufen am 12.05.2021.
  3. WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 12.05.2021.

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