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Topic Options #114897 - 11/01/03 07:08 PM Name This Crab! Now! Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... I caught the end of a nature sequence this afternoon. There was this astonishing crab that was bedecking itself with bits of cloth and pearls that someone had discarded in the water. It looked like a little girl dressing up in her mother's things. Apparently it is the habit of this crab to disguise itself in bits and pieces of everything from fabrit to twine to sponge--anything that falls to the bottom--and these things adhere to this particular species of crab by way of something on its body that is akin to velcro, but I can't remember how to speel velcro. It's not calld the gypsy crab, or the scavenger crab...I can't remember what it's called. Does anyone know? Top #114898 - 11/01/03 07:27 PM Re: Name This Crab! Now! Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Well, there is a generic term 'scavenger crab' that covers any crab that scavenges for food. More interesting, a street cleaner is also referred to as a 'scavenger crab'; hadn't heard that before. If you're interested in taking a look at many different types of crabs, check out the crab list on OneLook: http://onelook.com/?w=*crab&ls=a Top #114899 - 11/01/03 08:48 PM Re: Name This Crab! Now! wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Dear WW: Here is a URL showing picture of a crab disquised as a sponge. Down at very bottom, it gives genus name Stimdromia, but doesn't say clearly that that is name of the crab in the picture. http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/crust/gbmovpet.html Here is another, camouflaged with seaweed. Genus Naxia http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/crust/gbmov743.html Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8430 Members 16 Forums 13689 Topics 209809 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members supermatthias, prabakaran, sce, Eva, sylviasuper 8430 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 38 Guests and 1 Spider online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 85 jenny jenny 60 wofahulicodoc 57 endymion6 50 Rhubarb Commando 37 BranShea 33 Faldage 14 Buffalo Shrdlu 14 zmjezhd 13 teepee 11 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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