The Largest Crab Ever Caught The largest crab to have ever been caught was a Japanese spider crab whose captors nicknamed it "Big Daddy" after the professional wrestler Shirley Crabtree Jr., ...
Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on Earth, Japanese spider crabs are the largest ... In this crab’s case, those appendages are its 10 legs. Japanese spider crabs live on the Pacific side ...