Bellia picta Painted Crab

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

Leslie Harris, USA

Bellia picta, Ilo, Peru 2022

Courtesy of the author Leslie Harris, USA Leslie Harris, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Please visit www.inaturalist.org for more information.

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lexID:: 15711
AphiaID:: 440282

Scientific:: Bellia picta
German:: Bemalte-Krabbe
English:: Painted Crab

Category:: Crabs

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Belliidae (Family) > Bellia (Genus) > picta (Species)
Initial determination:: H. Milne Edwards, 1848

Occurrence:: Brazil, Chile, North Atlantic Ocean, Peru, South America, South Atlantic
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:: Meter
Size:: up to 1.97" (5 cm)
Temperature:: °F - 80.6 °F (°C - 27°C)
Food:: Filter feeder, No reliable information available, Zooplankton
Difficulty:: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Bellia picta
Bemalte-Krabbe

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2023-04-30 18:06:49
Last edit:: 2023-04-30 19:04:46

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Bellia picta H. Milne Edwards, 1848

Bellia picta lives around the coasts of South America. It's the only species in the genus Bellia. On the Atlantic coast, it is found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, while on the Pacific coast, it is found off Peru and Chile.

It probably lives in burrows and is a filter feeder.

External links

Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 30.04.2023.
WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 30.04.2023.

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