Neopetrolisthes maculatus
Species of crustacean
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Neopetrolisthes maculatus, also commonly known as the anemone porcelain crab,[2] is a species of porcelain crab from the Indo-Pacific region.[3] It is a small, colourful crustacean with a porcelain-like shell. It is usually found within the stinging tentacles of a number of sea anemone species.[1][4]
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| Neopetrolisthes maculatus | |
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| On Mertens' carpet sea anemone (Stichodactyla mertensii), Anilao, Philippines. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Family: | Porcellanidae |
| Genus: | Neopetrolisthes |
| Species: | N. maculatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Neopetrolisthes maculatus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
Ecology
It is usually found on a number of large sea anemone species with each anemone generally containing single pair of crabs. There the stinging tentacles would protect them from potential predators. They are territorial of their anemones.[4][6]
Diet
Despite their large claws, they do no use them to capture food and likely use them to defend themselves from predation. Instead they are filter-feeders using long bristles on their mouthparts like a broom sweeping out of the water column organisms such as plankton, algae, small crustaceans and other small organisms.[6]
Gallery
Neopetrolisthes maculatus at Wakatobi National Park, 2015
Close up of chelipeds of Neopetrolisthes maculatus, 2006
Chelipeds of Neopetrolisthes maculatus at Anilao, Philippines, 2014
Neopetrolisthes maculatus pouncing on carpet anemone, 2004
Neopetrolisthes maculatus near Sorong, Indonesia, 2015
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