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title: "Warty Crab"
description: "Eriphia verrucosa — Inne zwierzęta. Eriphia verrucosa, sometimes called the warty crab or yellow crab, is a species of crab found in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/warty-crab
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Warty Crab

> Eriphia verrucosa — Inne zwierzęta. Eriphia verrucosa, sometimes called the warty crab or yellow crab, is a species of crab found in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores.

- Scientific name: *Eriphia verrucosa*
- Category: `other` (Inne zwierzęta)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 6368
- Wikidata: [Q720597](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720597)
- iNaturalist taxon: [128834](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/128834)

## Names

- en: Warty Crab
- de: Italienischer Taschenkrebs
- fr: Crabe verruqueux

## Countries with the most observations

ES (1477), HR (1100), IT (949), FR (802), GR (536), PT (448), TR (98), IL (87), UA (83), AL (73), MT (69), SI (51)

## Summary

Eriphia verrucosa, sometimes called the warty crab or yellow crab, is a species of crab found in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores. Individual crabs have been caught as far north as Cornwall. Formerly a frequent species in the Black Sea, it has decreased in numbers since the 1980s and is now listed in the Ukrainian Red Data Book of endangered species.

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

## Photo

![Warty Crab](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/warty-crab/medium.jpg)

Photo: Marino Linić · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/122411566

## Machine access

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