Description: Previously known as Maja squinado which is now known to be a Mediterranean species.

Distribution: A southern species in the UK. Now quite frequent in Northern Ireland but unknown from there in the early 1980s, it is probably expanding its range northwards.

Distribution Map from NBN: Maja brachydactyla at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Maja brachydactyla at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Maja brachydactyla at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Maja brachydactyla Balss, 1922. AphiaID: 107347.

Classification: Biota; Animalia; Arthropoda; Crustacea; Multicrustacea; Malacostraca; Eumalacostraca; Eucarida; Decapoda; Pleocyemata; Brachyura; Eubrachyura; Heterotremata; Majoidea; Majidae; Majinae; Maja