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title: "Jonah Crab"
description: "Cancer borealis — Outros animais. The Jonah crab (Cancer borealis) is a marine brachyuran crab that inhabits waters along the east coast of North America from Newfoundland to Florida."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/jonah-crab
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Jonah Crab

> Cancer borealis — Outros animais. The Jonah crab (Cancer borealis) is a marine brachyuran crab that inhabits waters along the east coast of North America from Newfoundland to Florida.

- Scientific name: *Cancer borealis*
- Category: `other` (Outros animais)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 4044
- Wikidata: [Q6271957](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6271957)
- iNaturalist taxon: [62393](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62393)

## Names

- en: Jonah Crab
- fr: Crabe nordique

## Countries with the most observations

US (2590), CA (1084)

## Summary

The Jonah crab (Cancer borealis) is a marine brachyuran crab that inhabits waters along the east coast of North America from Newfoundland to Florida. Jonah crabs possess a rounded, rough-edged carapace with small light spots, and robust claws with dark brown-black tips. The maximum reported carapace width for males is 8.7 in (222 mm), while females rarely exceed 5.9 in (150 mm). It is the closest relative to the European brown crab in the Western Atlantic.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Ira Gershenhorn · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93675043

## Machine access

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