They can live up to 100 years, and with all their limbs spread out they are about 12 feet long and 15 inches wide
The main enemies of the Japanese Spider Crab are octopuses, large fish, and occasionally humans who catch them for food. These crabs have a hard exoskeleton which provides protection against predators, but they are still vulnerable during molting when their shells are soft.
Most crab Spiders live in Kentucky, US and hide on flowers to catch there prey.
There are crab Spiders (see first wikipedia article in related links) and there are spider crabs (see second wiki article for the most commonly referred to spider crab, the huge Japanese kind). Crab spiders are a family (as in Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species), and thus a rather general type of spiders, that are very wide spread throughout the world. There a genus of spider sometimes called a crab spider that is very poisonous, and they live in the deserts of Africa (see third wiki article).
Any species of sluggish marine crab in the widely distributed family Majidae (or Maiidae). Spider crabs have a beak-shaped head; thick, rounded body; and long, spindly legs. They use a mucuslike mouth secretion to fasten algae, sponges, and other organisms to the hairs, spines, and knobby projections covering the body. Most species are scavengers, especially of carrion. Their size varies greatly. The body of the European long-beaked spider crab (Macropodia rostrata) is less than 0.5 in. (1 cm) in diameter, whereas the Japanese giant crab (Macrocheira kaempferi), whose outstretched claws can measure 13 ft (4 m) from tip to tip, is perhaps the largest known arthropod.http://www.answers.com/spider%20crab
could be a male crab spider, or a writing spider.
The Japanese spider crab is the largest.
Japanese spider crab was created in 1836.
what is a japanese spider crabs movement
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the Japanese spider crab's legspan can reach up to 13feet while the body can only reach 1foot of diameter
it is half spider
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No, a spider crab is an Arthropod. Did you know that the Japanese spider crab has the longest leg span of all Arthropods?
This gentle marine crab that can live for up to 100 years is all crab. While both spiders and Japanese spider crabs are both Arthropods, spiders are not crustaceans. The related link listed below explains how it was given it's name.
The largest one in captivity is 12 feet and 40 years old. There is nothing on the biggest one ever.
The largest crustaceans is a Japanese spider crab.
they eat stuff