This crab just realized that, in all the stories, all the magic carpets do is fly. If they’re magic, shouldn’t they be able to do a lot more?
Crab
Category Archives: Crustacean
Crab
This aquarium allowed flash in some exhibits but not in others. It really makes a difference in the quality of the image, but I do wonder why each aquarium has completely different rules about what can and can not be flashed. Doesn’t seem very science-based.
Lobster
This lobster is holding a gender re-veiling party … because it’s still no one’s business but theirs.
Decorator Crab
Decorator crabs are known for gluing bits of coral and shells to themselves to aid in camouflage – but some just want to be fluffy.
Peppermint Shrimp
Peppermint shrimp are misnamed and actually taste like spearmint.
Crab
This crab thinks that if people cared about maintaining the mystery in a process, they probably shouldn’t ask questions about it.
Related, this crab doesn’t know where its ideas come from.
Japanese Spider Crab
Unlike their namesake*, the Japanese spider crab only has two eyes. This is one of them.
* The “spider” part, not the “Japanese”** part
** Japanese people*** have two eyes, as do most animals**** that live there.
*** Well, most of them anyway
**** But not spiders
Snail
If you’re bummed that you didn’t get the gift you wanted, here’s a post of snail hiding in a shell on a rail in a hole in a post.
You’re welcome.
Whitespotted Hermit Crab
If they picked one shell and stuck with it, we’d probably call them anchoritic crabs.
Caribbean Rock Mantis Shrimp
Most people think the Caribbean rock mantis shrimp lives in the rocky shoals of the Caribbean.
Nope.
They just really like Black:Guayaba.
Lobster
Waiting on the shingle.
Shrimp
It’s hard, but I’m getting better and taking photos of the brush-like filters on shrimp.
Electric White Lobster
This is an electric white lobster. Why is it called that? Because it’s white, and it’s related to the electric blue crayfish. Neither have electric powers. Instead, the colour is named after lightning and, apparently, was popular in the 1890’s where they distinguished between deep electric blue (aka French electric blue), iridescent electric blue, medium electric blue, and dark electric blue.
Wikipedia takes care to note that iridescent electric blue is only metaphorically electric and metaphorically iridescent. However, odds are that you are looking at this on some sort of computer screen, so it is metaphorically iridescent, but all of these blues are actually electric.
That also means that, even though there is no such thing as electric white, the white you are seeing in the electric white lobster above is, actually, electric. It’s other name is the White Ghost Lobster. It, however, neither a lobster nor a ghost.
This is a crayfish.
Giant Spider Crab
This crab solved a problem like Maria using series substitution and trigonometric identities, believes the nuns were lazy thinkers.
Crab
Next time you’re at the aquarium, take a close look inside the coral. Never know what you might see.
Crab
TFW that interesting person you’ve been talking to for the last hour suddenly shows their true colours.
Blue Crayfish
According to Wikipedia, crayfish are also known as crawfish, crawdads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, mudbugs or yabbies. Taxonomically, we know they’re in the super-families Astacoidea and Parastacoidea. Linguistically, though, it’s a bit messy.
The term “cray” come from the French word “escrevisse”. Because they live in water, people tack on the word “fish”, even though it’s clearly not one of those. Here in America, “Cray” is trademarked*, so the stem-word “craw” is preferred. In the midwest, we know from fishes so we call them “crawdads” instead … apparently our fathers were all lobster-like. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But wait! It gets even messier. In Singapore, “crayfish” is what they call the slipper lobster, something entirely different … except when it refers to a different species, invasive, which is more commonly known as the Australian red claw crayfish, the Queensland red claw, the redclaw, the tropical blue crayfish, and the freshwater blueclaw crayfish.
Deeper into the linguistic messiness, it appears that in Australia, New Zealand and, oddly, South Africa all these names refer to a type of spiny lobster. With “crawfish” referring to the saltwater version and “yabby” meaning the freshwater species … unless they’re talking about some different species, the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish or the Murray crayfish.
And this, my friends, is why biologists have to rename everything in Latin.
* This may not actually be the reason
Crawfish
This crawfish is pondering the lyrics to Free Bird and feels he’s missing something as all the birds he encounters are far from free and, in fact, can only seem to visit for very brief time periods.
Crawfish
This crawfish is the first to admit that he lacks valuable life experience.
However, he is still pretty sure that that’s not what it sounds like when doves cry.
Spot Prawn
The important thing to remember about evolution is that nothing is moving along any sort of master plan. Evolutions just sort of steps in and tweaks stuff until it’s good enough for survival. Then it tells the critter “go eat something and have sex”.
Many evolved features make more sense when you keep this mind.