The spiny spider crab is also known as the European spider crab. It is a large, orange crab with long spindly legs like a spider and a distinctive spiny shell. Their oval shells are often covered in algae, giving them a green hairy look! They're not particularly picky eaters and will feed on seaweed, mussels, starfish and well, anything else they can get their claws on!
How to identify
A large orange crab with long, spindly legs like a spider. They have an oval, spiky shell that is often covered in algae. They are larger than great spider crabs, which have a pear-shaped shell.
Did you know?
Spider crabs undertake an annual migration into deeper waters in Autumn, sometimes travelling over 100 miles in total on their outwards and return journeys.
