---
title: "Cangrejo nadador de Heller"
description: "Charybdis hellerii — Otros animales. Charybdis hellerii, the Indo-Pacific swimming crab or spiny hands is a species of crab from the swimming crab family, the Portunidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/indo-pacific-swimming-crab
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cangrejo nadador de Heller

> Charybdis hellerii — Otros animales. Charybdis hellerii, the Indo-Pacific swimming crab or spiny hands is a species of crab from the swimming crab family, the Portunidae.

- Scientific name: *Charybdis hellerii*
- Category: `other` (Otros animales)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar y costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 1690
- Wikidata: [Q4484756](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4484756)
- iNaturalist taxon: [199399](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/199399)

## Names

- en: Indo-Pacific Swimming Crab
- es: Cangrejo nadador de Heller
- fr: Crabe nageur de Heller
- nl: Charybdis (Charybdis) hellerii
- pt: Siri bidu

## Countries with the most observations

SG (322), US (239), HK (195), IN (188), CN (87), BR (82), AU (32), MY (31), MX (29), TH (27), TW (26), IL (13)

## Summary

Charybdis hellerii, the Indo-Pacific swimming crab or spiny hands is a species of crab from the swimming crab family, the Portunidae. Its native range covers the Indian and Pacific Oceans but it has been introduced to the western Atlantic and has invaded the Mediterranean. It is a commercially exploited species in south-east Asia.

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

## Photo

![Cangrejo nadador de Heller](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/indo-pacific-swimming-crab/medium.jpg)

Photo: U.S. Geological Survey Archive, U.S. Geological Survey, Bugwood.org · Public domain · commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indo_Pacific_swimming_crab.jpg

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/indo-pacific-swimming-crab?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).