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Maja squinado (Spiny spider crab)

Synonyms: Cancer cornutus; Cancer squinado; Maia squinado; Maja tuberculata

Wikipedia Abstract

Maja squinado (the European spider crab, spiny spider crab or spinous spider crab) is a species of migratory crab found in the north-east Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea.
View Wikipedia Record: Maja squinado

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Arcipelago delle Egadi - area marina e terrestre 119270 Italy    
Badies de Pollença i Alcúdia 75991 Spain    
Il-Bahar bejn Rdum Majjiesa u Ras ir-Raheb 2097 Malta  
Sa Dragonera 3144 Spain    
Stagnone di Marsala e Saline di Trapani - area marina e terrestre 8859 Italy    

Prey / Diet

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0