Lithodidae Dromiidae Atelecyclidae Cancridae Pirimelidae Cheiragonidae Dorippidae Eriphiidae Epialtidae Inachidae Oregoniidae Pilumnidae Geryonidae Portunidae Potamidae Panopeidae Xanthidae Grapsidae Images Name list Publications Sites alex@equator.ru Whole checklist По-русски (in Russian) Porcellanidae Varunidae Camptandriidae Macrophthalmidae Pinnotheridae Hapalogastridae Plagusiidae Far East / North Pacific Black Sea Baltic Sea Freshwater crabs Arctic Ocean Designed and composed by Alex Alyakrinsky, 2011 Pinnotheridae Pinnixa rathbuni Sakai, 1934 Far East / North Pacific Range. Off coasts of Japan; Peter the Great Gulf (Posyet Bay), off coasts of southern and  southwestern Sakhalin, and in South Kuril Strait. [Vassilenko, 1990, p. 86]. South part of  Sakhalin Island, Peter the Great Gulf (Sea of Japan), along the coasts Honshu Island.  [Vinogradov, 1950, p. 240]. Peter the Great Gulf, off Honshu Island, in South-Kuril Strait and  in Aniva Bay. [Zhirmunskiy, 1976, p. 55]. “Japan endemic; from Aomori Bay to Ohsaka Bay  and the Inland Sea of Japan.” [Sakai, 1976, p.586].  Free-form and commensal species, inhabits tubes of polychaete. From littoral to a depth of 132  m. Muddy, muddy-sandy, sandy and shelly bottoms. [Vassilenko, 1990, p. 86]. Inhabits muddy  bottoms or muddy bottoms with shell debris. Often the crabs are symbionts of large-size  polychaete, inhabiting their tubes. [Zhirmunskiy, 1976, p. 55]. “Inhabits the muddy or shelly  bottoms in the depth of 30 to 85 metres. Free living, sometimes swarms on the bottoms.”  [Sakai, 1976, p.586].  Size of carapace. Up to 8,0 x 17,7 mm (length x width), males; up to 11,2 x 22 mm (length x  width), females. [Vassilenko, 1990, p. 86]. Upp to 7 mm. [Zhirmunskiy, 1976, p. 55]. 5 x 8,5  mm (length x width), male; 11,2 x 22 mm (length x width), largest female. [Sakai, 1976,  p.586]. Pinnixa rathbuni in species-identification.org