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Caphyra yookadai Soft Coral Swimming Crab

Caphyra yookadai is commonly referred to as Soft Coral 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

Caphyra yookadai,Nishiura-enashi, Präfektur Shizuoka, Japan 2001_0379-02

Place: Ose Cape, Numazu city, Shizuoka pref., Japan (-12m, on Cladiella digitulata (Klunzinger, 1877)).Comment: carapace width=4mm (approximately).
Courtesy of the author Hitoshi Takakura (Flickr Brachyura), Japan . Please visit www.flickr.com for more information.

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lexID:
17173 
AphiaID:
208777 
Scientific:
Caphyra yookadai 
German:
Weichkorallen Schwimmkrabbe 
English:
Soft Coral Swimming Crab 
Category:
Krabbor 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Portunidae (Family) > Caphyra (Genus) > yookadai (Species) 
Initial determination:
Sakai, 1933 
Occurrence:
Australia, Japan 
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:
- 12 Meter 
Habitats:
Epibiont (living on other organisms), On living corals, Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
0,4 cm 
Temperature:
°F - 78.8 °F (°C - 26°C) 
Food:
No reliable information available 
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
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2025-01-21 14:17:32 

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Caphyra yookadai Sakai, 1933

Most species of the genus Caphyra, lives epibiontic on soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonaria).

Synonymised names
Caphyra yo-okadai Sakai, 1933 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling

External links

  1. Crabs of Japan (en). Abgerufen am 21.01.2025.

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