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Lissocarcinus polybioides Seastar Swimming Crab

Lissocarcinus polybioides is commonly referred to as Seastar Swimming 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.

Profilbild Urheber Hitoshi Takakura (Flickr Brachyura), Japan

Lissocarcinus polybioides, Japan 2021

Place: Ose-cape, Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan (-23m, sandy bottom). Comment: carapace width=2cm(approximately, bigger one).
Courtesy of the author Hitoshi Takakura (Flickr Brachyura), Japan . Please visit www.flickr.com for more information.

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lexID:
16298 
AphiaID:
208766 
Scientific:
Lissocarcinus polybioides 
German:
Seestern Schwimmkrabbe 
English:
Seastar Swimming Crab 
Category:
Crabes 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Portunidae (Family) > Lissocarcinus (Genus) > polybioides (Species) 
Initial determination:
Adams & White, 1849 
Occurrence:
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bahrain, French Polynesia, Gulf of Oman / Oman, India, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar, Marquesas Islands, New Caledonia, Philippines, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, South-Pazific, Sri Lanka, Tansania, the Seychelles, Vanuatu 
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:
2 - 190 Meter 
Habitats:
Coastal waters, Intertidal zone, Tidal Zone, Muddy grounds, Seawater, Sea water, Shell Gravel Soils, Shell Grit Soils 
Size:
up to 0.79" (2 cm) 
Temperature:
19,0 °F - 25,9 °F (19,0°C - 25,9°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 hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-03-03 09:49:00 

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Lissocarcinus polybioides Adams & White, 1849

Lissocarcinus polybioides is a small swimming crab that lives in association with starfish. The tank length is approx. 2cm. The base color is a simple brownish. Much better known are their colorfully interesting relatives, the cylinder rose swimming crab Lissocarcinus laevis and the sea roller swimming crab Lissocarcinus orbicularis.

The starfish swimming crab is host to the parasite Loxothylacus kossmanni Boschma, 1955.

Lissocarcinus species and their host:
Lissocarcinus arkati - associated with sea urchins
Lissocarcinus boohlensis
Lissocarcinus echinodisci
Lissocarcinus elegans
Lissocarcinus holothuricola
Lissocarcinus laevis - associated with anemones, cylinder roses
Lissocarcinus orbicularis - associated with sea rollers (Holothuria,Bohadschia,Pearsonothuria,Actinopyga,Synapta, Stichopus(Lissocarcinus ornatus
Lissocarcinus polybioides - associated with the seastasr Luidia maculata + Astropecten sp and hard corals

Synonymised names
Lissocarcinus polybiodes Adams & White, 1849 · unaccepted > misspelling

External links

  1. Marine Biodiversity Records (en). Abgerufen am 02.03.2024.
  2. Researchgate (en). Abgerufen am 02.03.2024.
  3. sealifebase (en). Abgerufen am 02.03.2024.

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