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title: "Hairy Porcelain Crab"
description: "Porcellana platycheles — Other animals. Porcellana platycheles, the broad-clawed porcelain crab, is a species of porcelain crab from the family Porcellanidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/hairy-porcelain-crab
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Hairy Porcelain Crab

> Porcellana platycheles — Other animals. Porcellana platycheles, the broad-clawed porcelain crab, is a species of porcelain crab from the family Porcellanidae.

- Scientific name: *Porcellana platycheles*
- Category: `other` (Other animals)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 3832
- Wikidata: [Q3908455](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3908455)
- iNaturalist taxon: [130089](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/130089)

## Names

- en: Hairy Porcelain Crab
- de: Haariger Porzellankrebs
- fr: Porcellane grise

## Countries with the most observations

GB (1464), FR (1348), ES (307), PT (157), HR (154), IE (80), GR (49), NL (48), IT (35), JE (26), DZ (14), AL (13)

## Summary

Porcellana platycheles, the broad-clawed porcelain crab, is a species of porcelain crab from the family Porcellanidae. It is found on the coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcellana_platycheles

## Photo

![Hairy Porcelain Crab](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/hairy-porcelain-crab/medium.jpg)

Photo: Libby Scarfe · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/206945474

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/hairy-porcelain-crab?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).