THE crab –japanese giant It is considered the largest animal of the phylum of arthropods – invertebrates with articulated paws – in the world.
The crab can measure 3.7 meters of compliance, or more, from the tip of one paw to another, according to the British Encyclopedia.
A small car doesn’t measure much more than that: the Fiat Uno 2018 for example, it is 3.82 meters long.
Found between 50 and 300 meters deep, the Japanese-giant crab has a thick and rounded body, 37 centimeters wide, long and thin legs and a weight that exceeds 18 pounds.
The giant species is omnivorous and its diet consists of plant and animal matters. Many times, it is necrophage -That is, it feeds on decaying organisms. The information is from Georgia Aquarium.
Commercial crab fishing, according to the British Encyclopedia, usually happens in temperate waters, such as those in the northern Pacific Ocean, around Japan, where they live.
The species, even, has already won the longest leg of a captive crab, in Guinness World Records in 2013.
With one leg measuring 1.43 meters, the title was given to Big Daddy, which was in the Sea Life Blackpool aquarium in Lancashire, the United Kingdom. The animal died about 80 years old in 2016.
This content was originally published in the world’s largest crab has almost the same size of small car; Meet on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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