Blood-Spot Swimming Crab

Incultus tuberculosus

• Group: Crab
• Typical depth: 21–580 m

A swimming crab of soft seabeds, the blood spot crab ranges from about twenty metres down to nearly six hundred. It settles on muddy sand, soft mud and beds of broken shell, paddling over the bottom on flattened legs.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Portunidae › Incultus

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 1588084.