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Editorial Peony with crab, A small red crab with a large flowering peony. The crab is more common on surimono as the personal emblem of the poet Bunbunsha Kanikomaru (1780-1837), the word crab 'kani' appears in his name. With three poems, crustaceans: crab, plan...
Editorial Panopeus herbstii, Print, Panopeus herbstii (the black-fingered mud crab, black-clawed mud crab, Atlantic mud crab or sometimes common mud crab) is a true crab, belonging to the infraorder Brachyura, and is the largest of the mud crabs.
Editorial Atelecyclus heterodon, Print, Atelecyclus rotundatus is a medium-sized crab found on the west coast of Europe and Africa as well as almost all the Mediterranean Sea and on the Cape Verde and Canary islands. It has many common names, including circular ...
Editorial Pagurus bernhardus, Print, Pagurus bernhardus is the common marine hermit crab of Europe's Atlantic coasts. It is sometimes referred to as the common hermit crab or soldier crab. Its carapace reaches 3.5 centimetres (1.4 in) long, and is found in both ...
Editorial Dromia rumphii, Print, Dromia dormia, the sleepy sponge crab or common sponge crab, is the largest species of sponge crab. It grows to a carapace width of 20 cm (8 in) and lives in shallow waters across the Indo-Pacific region.
Editorial Atelecyclus heterodon, Print, Atelecyclus rotundatus is a medium-sized crab found on the west coast of Europe and Africa as well as almost all the Mediterranean Sea and on the Cape Verde and Canary islands. It has many common names, including circular ...
Editorial Pagurus bernhardus, Print, Pagurus bernhardus is the common marine hermit crab of Europe's Atlantic coasts. It is sometimes referred to as the common hermit crab or soldier crab. Its carapace reaches 3.5 centimetres (1.4 in) long, and is found in both ...
Editorial Dromia rumphii, Print, Dromia dormia, the sleepy sponge crab or common sponge crab, is the largest species of sponge crab. It grows to a carapace width of 20 cm (8 in) and lives in shallow waters across the Indo-Pacific region.
Editorial Carpilius maculatus, Print, Carpilius maculatus common names seven-eleven crab, spotted reef crab, dark-finger coral crab, and large spotted crab, is a species of crab in the family Carpiliidae.
Editorial Gecarcinus ruricola, Print, Gecarcinus ruricola is a species of terrestrial crab. It is the most terrestrial of the Caribbean land crabs, and is found from western Cuba across the Antilles as far east as Barbados. Common names for G. ruricola include t...
Editorial Carcinus maenas, Print, Carcinus maenas is a common littoral crab. It is known by different names around the world. In the British Isles, it is generally referred to as the shore crab, or green shore crab. In North America and South Africa, it bears th...
Editorial Gecarcinus ruricola, Print, Gecarcinus ruricola is a species of terrestrial crab. It is the most terrestrial of the Caribbean land crabs, and is found from western Cuba across the Antilles as far east as Barbados. Common names for G. ruricola include t...
Editorial Gecarcinus ruricola, Print, Gecarcinus ruricola is a species of terrestrial crab. It is the most terrestrial of the Caribbean land crabs, and is found from western Cuba across the Antilles as far east as Barbados. Common names for G. ruricola include t...
Editorial Gecarcinus ruricola, Print, Gecarcinus ruricola is a species of terrestrial crab. It is the most terrestrial of the Caribbean land crabs, and is found from western Cuba across the Antilles as far east as Barbados. Common names for G. ruricola include t...
Editorial Dromia rumphii, Print, Dromia dormia, the sleepy sponge crab or common sponge crab, is the largest species of sponge crab. It grows to a carapace width of 20 cm (8 in) and lives in shallow waters across the Indo-Pacific region.
Editorial Gecarcinus ruricola, Print, Gecarcinus ruricola is a species of terrestrial crab. It is the most terrestrial of the Caribbean land crabs, and is found from western Cuba across the Antilles as far east as Barbados. Common names for G. ruricola include t...
Editorial Plagusia squamosa, Print, Plagusia squamosa is a marine crab of the family Plagusiidae, formerly considered a subspecies of Plagusia depressa (as P. d. tuberculata). It is found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceans. P. squamosa's carapace is bumpy and quite...
Editorial Pagurus bernhardus, Print, Pagurus bernhardus is the common marine hermit crab of Europe's Atlantic coasts. It is sometimes referred to as the common hermit crab or soldier crab. Its carapace reaches 3.5 centimetres (1.4 in) long, and is found in both ...
Editorial Dromia rumphii, Print, Dromia dormia, the sleepy sponge crab or common sponge crab, is the largest species of sponge crab. It grows to a carapace width of 20 cm (8 in) and lives in shallow waters across the Indo-Pacific region.
Editorial Gecarcinus lateralis, Print, Gecarcinus lateralis, also known by the common names blackback land crab, Bermuda land crab, red land crab (leading to easy confusion with Gecarcoidea natalis) and moon crab (leading to easy confusion with G. quadratus and ...
Editorial Procyon cancrivorus, Print, The crab-eating raccoon or South American raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus) is a species of raccoon native to marshy and jungle areas of Central and South America (including Trinidad and Tobago). It is found from Costa Rica sout...
Editorial Calappa gallus, Print, Calappa gallus, common name rough box crab, or lumpy box crab, and Hawaiian name poki poki, is a benthic species of box crab in the family Calappidae.
Editorial Jewel beetles, Buprestis ocellata, scarlet cantharis, and common hermit crab, Pagurus bernhardus (Cancer bernardus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Sydenham Edwards from John Mason Good's Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G. Kearsley, London, 1813.
Editorial Game Piece with Zodiac Sign of Cancer or Scorpio, mid-12th century, North French, Walrus ivory, Overall: 2 7/16 x 1/2 in. (6.2 x 1.3 cm), Ivories-Walrus, This rare carving of a stylized crab representing the sign for Cancer or Scorpio likely came from ...
Editorial Jewel beetles, Buprestis ocellata, scarlet cantharis, and common hermit crab, Pagurus bernhardus (Cancer bernardus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Sydenham Edwards from John Mason Good's Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G. Kearsley, London, 1813.
Editorial Decapoda crabs and shrimps: horrid elbow crab, Daldorfia horrida, sentinel crab, Podophthalmus vigil, Gibb's sea spider, Pisa armata, angular crab, Goneplax rhomboides, Solenolambrus tenellus, banded coral shrimp, Stenopus hispidus, common prawn, Palae...
Editorial Sentinel crab or common podophthalmus, Podophthalmus vigil. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leach's Zoological Miscellany, McMillan, London, 1815.