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Petrolisthes desmarestii Porcelain Crab

Petrolisthes desmarestiiis commonly referred to as Porcelain 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 Leslie Harris, USA

Petrolisthes desmarestii. Ilo, Peru 2022

Observations made by the Biodiversity Ilo team from the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) & the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles (NHMLA). Photos by Jessica Whelpley (FLMNH), Brittany Cummings (FLMNH), Leslie Harris (NHMLA), CC-BY-NC-SA, credit to Biodiversity-Ilo.
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:
15749 
AphiaID:
431844 
Scientific:
Petrolisthes desmarestii 
German:
Porzellankrebs 
English:
Porcelain Crab 
Category:
Anomura 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Porcellanidae (Family) > Petrolisthes (Genus) > desmarestii (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Guérin, ), 1835 
Occurrence:
Chile, Peru, South East Pacific 
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:
- 10 Meter 
Size:
1.97" - 3.94" (5cm - 10cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 68 °F (°C - 20°C) 
Food:
Filter feeder, No reliable information available, Plankton 
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:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2023-05-14 13:43:16 

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Petrolisthes desmarestii (Guérin, 1835)

Synonymised names:
Porcellana acanthophora Lucas, 1844 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Porcellana desmarestii Guérin, 1835 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Porcellana dubia Kinahan, 1857 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

External links

  1. BOLD System (en). Abgerufen am 14.05.2023.
  2. treatment.plazi.org (en). Abgerufen am 14.05.2023.
  3. WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 14.05.2023.

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Petrolisthes desmarestii. Ilo, Peru 2022
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