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Lamarck's crab

Xanthias lamarckii (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

Status not recordedcrabs and lobsters

The lamarck's crab (Xanthias lamarckii) is a species in the family Xanthidae, order Decapoda.

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Quick facts about the lamarck's crab

Weight
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Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the lamarck's crab live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the lamarck's crab as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Greece

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the lamarck's crab endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the lamarck's crab classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classMalacostraca
  4. orderDecapoda
  5. familyXanthidae
  6. genusXanthias
  7. SpeciesXanthias lamarckii (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

Synonyms Xanthias lamarcki, Xantho cultrimanus, Xantho granosomanus, Xantho lamarckii, Xanthodes granosomanus, Xanthodes lamarcki

Other names and names in other languages (4)
  • Crabe de LamarckFrench
  • ラマルクヒメオウギガニJapanese
  • ปูใบ้ลามาร์กThai
  • 細粒近扇蟹Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the lamarck's crab

Other species in the same genus Xanthias.

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Common questions

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Is the lamarck's crab an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the lamarck's crab as introduced in 1 country: Greece, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the lamarck's crab?

The lamarck's crab (Xanthias lamarckii) belongs to the family Xanthidae in the order Decapoda.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Lamarck's crab (Xanthias lamarckii). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/lamarcks-crab

MLA

“Lamarck's crab (Xanthias lamarckii).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/lamarcks-crab.

BibTeX
@misc{lamarcks_crab_2026,
  title = {Lamarck's crab (Xanthias lamarckii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/lamarcks-crab},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}