Albunea carabus Sand Crab, Mole Crab

Albunea carabus is commonly referred to as Sand Crab, Mole 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.

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lexID:

17116 

AphiaID:

107191 

Scientific:

Albunea carabus 

German:

Sand-Krabbe, Maulwurfs-Krabbe 

English:

Sand Crab, Mole Crab 

Category:

Kraby 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Albuneidae (Family) > Albunea (Genus) > carabus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1758 

Occurrence:

Tunesien, Benin, Ghana, Algeria, Azores, East-Atlantic Ocean, Egypt, European Coasts, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Levantine Sea (Mediterranean), Madeira, North Atlantic Ocean, Portugal, Spain, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Mediterranean Sea, Togo, Turkey, Tyrrhenian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) 

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:

3 - 40 Meter 

Habitats:

Coastal waters, Continental shelf, Estuaries (river mouths), Seawater, Sea water, Soft grounds 

Size:

0.39" - 0.79" (1,3cm - 2,0cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 78.8 °F (°C - 26°C) 

Food:

Carnivore 

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:

• Albunea catherinae
• Albunea danai
• Albunea gibbesii
• Albunea paretii
• Albunea speciosa

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Albunea carabus
  Sand-Krabbe, Maulwurfs-Krabbe

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2025-01-04 20:29:15 

Last edit:

2025-01-04 20:43:30 

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