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Carcinisation (American English: carcinization) is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as "the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab". [2]
Raninidae is a family of unusual crabs, sometimes known as "frog crabs", on account of their frog-like appearance.They are taken by most scientists to be quite primitive among the true crabs.
In Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, the writer, Lafcadio Hearn, references the Heike crab in "The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi." [7] In the 1964 Japanese anthology film Kwaidan, based on Hearn's stories, "Hoichi the Earless" recounts the story of the Battle of Dan-no-ura, which becomes the basis of "Hoichi the Earless." The ...
A blue crab wearing some rather strange headgear was pulled from the Chesapeake Bay by the mayor of Tangier Island, Virginia, on May 30. Highly unusual crab caught by mayor on the Chesapeake Bay ...
The smallest species is the mangrove horseshoe crab (C. rotundicauda) and the largest is the tri-spine horseshoe crab (T. tridentatus). [ 44 ] On average, males of C. rotundicauda are about 30 centimeters (12 inches) long, including a telson that is about 15 cm (6 in), and a carapace about 15 cm (6 in) wide. [ 45 ]
A blue crab wearing some rather strange headgear was pulled from the Chesapeake Bay by the mayor of Tangier Island, Virginia, on May 30.
Because it possesses a strange combination of anatomical features, it is said to be the "platypus of crabs". [3] The presence of certain features in this species, such as its large claws and swimming limbs, confirm that those features were present in the crab lineage up to 95 million years ago. [4] It evolved during the Cretaceous crab revolution.
Since its ancestors were long-tailed decapods, and its successors were short-tailed crabs, Eocarcinus has been described as "the lobster who decided to become a crab". [5] Previously considered to be the oldest known true crab , a 2010 revision concluded that Eocarcinus could not be accommodated among the Brachyura, and was instead transferred ...