Accordingly, just one small piece from this crab is enough to kill an adult!

Flower egg crab, green egg crab or shawl crab, whose corresponding English names are Floral Egg Crab, Green Egg Crab, Shawl Crab , scientific name Atergatis floridus , is a species of crab that lives mainly in the tropical sea of India – The Pacific belongs to the family Xanthidae.

Flower egg crabs have a relatively narrow oval shape, with a smooth surface and smooth edges. They have large claws that are equal in size and smooth with black spoon-shaped tips, males are usually larger in size and are smaller in size compared to females.

Image of adult crab eggs.

With young flower egg crabs, their adorable appearance will immediately make people think of the Dorayaki donuts that often appear in the famous comic series Doraemon.

However, the meat of this species is toxic , even when cooked, when consumed, the poison is still not decomposed and often leads to death. These toxins are synthesized by bacteria of the genus Vibrio that live in symbiosis with crabs and similar toxins to those in puffer fish, such as tetrodotoxin, and also saxitoxin which is the main toxin associated with shellfish poisoning.

Flower egg crabs occur in the eastern Indian Ocean from Southeast Asia, south to Australia, to Rottnest Island in Western Australia and possibly Sydney in the east, their paternal range extending east through western Thailand. Binh Duong to Hawaii.

Young crab eggs with an appearance very similar to the cake that Doraemon likes to eat.

In Vietnam, they are often found living in shallow coral reefs around the islands in the central region.

Flower egg crabs usually live in shallow, sloping waters, where there are corals and crushed rocks. They are mainly nocturnal.