abdominalia

(zoology) A group of cirriped crustaceans having abdominal appendages.


krill

any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.


acorn-shell

One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus.


screw

From Middle English screw, scrue (“screw”); apparently, despite the difference in meaning, from Old French escroue (“nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole”), from Latin scrōfa (“female pig”) through comparison with the corkscrew shape of a pig's penis. There is also the Old French escruve (“screw”), from Old Dutch *scrūva ("screw"; whence Middle Dutch schruyve (“screw”)), which probably influenced or conflated with the aforementioned, resulting in the Middle English word.
more on the etymology of screw
Old French escroue (whence Medieval Latin scrofa (“nut, screwhole”)), is believed to be an adaptation of Latin scrōfa (“sow, female pig”); but this development is not found in other Romance languages. (For change in meaning, compare also Spanish puerca, Portuguese porca, both ‘sow; screw nut’, and is based on the fact that a boar's penis has a screw-like tip, making the sow's vulva equivalent to a screw nut by analogy).
Old Dutch *scrūva possibly derives from Proto-Germanic *skrūbō (“screw”), from *skru- (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keru-, *(s)ker- (“to cut”), and is related to German Schraube (“screw”), Low German schruve, schruwe (“screw”), Dutch schroef (“screw”), West Frisian skroef (“screw”), Danish skrue (“screw”), Swedish skruv (“screw, peg”), Icelandic skrúfa (“screw”).
Compare also Occitan escrofa (“screw nut”), Calabrese scrufina (“screw nut”), which may be borrowings of the Old French word, or parallel developments.

gloss

"screw"; whence Middle Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="dum">schruyve</i> (“screw”)

cog

the first turn of the screw pays all debts

A device that has a helical function.
An Archimedes screw.


jenny

Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.

A female creature of certain kinds:
(Australia) a female crab.

A female creature of certain kinds:
a female crab.


prawn

en-noun

prawn (countable and uncountable, plural prawn or prawns)

First attested early 1400s as various Middle English forms prayne, prane, praune, and prawne, which present no clear cognates in languages other than English. The forms suggest a hypothetical Old English form *prægn, where *æg would have evolved into Middle English *ay, but it is unclear if the word is of Germanic origin, from another European language, or loaned from a substrate. In the Isle of Wight, a word prankle ("prawn") is recorded and thought to be related. Century, following Skeat, suggested transposition of an unrecorded Old French *parne, *perne related to Spanish perna (“a flat shellfish”), Old Italian perna and diminutive pernochie, parnocchie, glossed as "shrimps or prawne, fishes" by John Florio, but the OED considers Florio's entry incorrect and the suggested connection semantically and phonologically implausible.
(woman with toned body but unattractive face): From the idea of discarding the head of a prawn before eating it.

sense

A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.


shrimp

en-noun

shrimp (countable and uncountable, plural shrimp or shrimps)

From Middle English schrimpe (“shrimp, puny person”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaz (“shrivelled”) (compare Middle High German schrimpf (“a scratch, minor wound”), Norwegian skramp (“thin horse, thin man”)), from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrivel”) (compare Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and scrimp, Middle High German schrimpfen (“to shrink, dry up”), Swedish skrympa (“to shrink”)), from Proto-Indo-European *skremb-, *skr̥mb- (compare Lithuanian skrembti (“to crust over, stiffen”), and possibly Albanian shkrumb (“embers, ashes; crumble”)).

ပုစွန်

general term for prawn, shrimp, crab, lobster, scampi

1851, "A Lady of Charleston" (Sarah Rutledge), The Carolina Housewife, 2013, unnumbered page,
Butter well a deep dish, upon which place a thick layer of pounded biscuit; having picked and boiled your shrimps, put them upon the biscuit; a layer of shrimps, with small pieces of butter, a little pepper, mace or nutmeg.

Shrimp farming is in its infancy in Africa. but Asia has most of the world's shrimp farms.

1998, Claude E. Boyd, Pond Aquaculture Water Quality Management, page 605:

Most shrimps belong to one of several families of the Infraorder Caridea (Chapter 4). However, coral shrimps and Venus shrimps are so different from the rest that a separate infraorder is warranted.

2004, Gary C. B. Poore, Shane T. Ahyong, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia: A Guide to Identification, page 145:

America's favorite seafood, shrimp has always been a big seller at the Home Port. On any given day, we usually served around 40 to 50 pounds of shrimp.

2011, Will Holtham, Home Port Cookbook: Beloved Recipes from Martha's Vineyard, page 142:

How many shrimps do you have to eat / Before you make your skin turn pink? / Eat too much and you'll get sick / Shrimps are pretty rich

2014, Kero Kero Bonito (lyrics and music), “Flamingo” (overall work in English and Japanese):

Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.

(uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.

(slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface: a person with an attractive body but unattractive face.


cyclops

en-noun

cyclops (plural cyclops or cyclopes or cyclopses)

cyclops (plural)
cyclopes (plural)
cyclopses (plural)

Borrowed from Latin cyclōps, from Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps, “Cyclops”), q.v.

der

(zoology) Any copepod in the genus Cyclops.


crayfish

en-noun

crayfish (plural crayfishes or crayfish)

Alteration (by folk etymology, influenced by fish) of Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice ("crayfish"; > Modern French: écrevisse), from Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-, *gerebʰ- (“to scratch, crawl”). Akin to Old High German krebiz ("edible crustacean, crab"; > Modern German Krebs (“crab”)), Middle Low German krēvet (“crab”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”). More at crab.

gloss

"crayfish"; > Modern French: <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">écrevisse</i>

gloss

"edible crustacean, crab"; > Modern German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Krebs</i> (“crab”)

Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.

(New England, Pennsylvania, Upper Midwestern US) A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.

kreef

freshwater crustacean resembling lobster

(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).

(Australia) A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.

(Singapore) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).


woodlouse

In addition, both the woodlouse and the crayfish possess an unpaired medial nerve which runs along the whole length of the ventral nerve cord, linking adjacent ganglia.

1995, Olaf Breidbach, Wolfram Kutsch, editors, The Nervous Systems of Invertebrates: An Evolutionary and Comparative Approach, page 193:

Woodlice commonly produce offspring 1-3 times per year, with spring and autumn broods most common. Woodlice often survive for longer than a year, with longevity of 2-5 years not uncommon.

2001, John L. Capinera, editor, Handbook of Vegetable Pests, page 566:

The sections allow woodlice to bend and curve their armored bodies. Some types of woodlice can roll into a tight ball. They do this to protect themselves when threatened by a predator.
Female woodlice carry their eggs in a liquid-filled pouch under their bodies. When the young woodlice hatch from the eggs, they crawl out of the pouch.

2011, Ruth Owen, Creepy Backyard Invaders, page 18:

Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, which have a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often being capable of rolling into a ball, and feed only on dead plant matter, usually living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark.

armadillo bug

(any species of suborder Oniscidea): oniscidean; local terms


lobster

en-noun

lobster (countable and uncountable, plural lobsters)

From Middle English loppestere, lopster, from Old English loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, of uncertain origin. Some believe it to be a corruption of Latin lō̆custa (“grasshopper, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre. In Latin, the phrase lō̆custa marīna (literally "sea-grasshopper") signified a type of crustacean (shrimp or lobster).
Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop + -ster.

A crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.


nipper

(usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.

2003 Some Like It Hot: The Beach As a Cultural Dimension
SLSA has become a multi-million dollar enterprise comprising 262 clubs located around the Australian coastline, with 100000 members, which included thousands of juniors or 'nippers', as they were more commonly known.

It is the first day of training for a group of ten 'little nippers' (novice surf life-savers). An assortment of children expectantly hover in the clubhouse.

2008, Tania Cassidy, Robyn L. Jones, Paul Potrac, Understanding Sports Coaching: The Social, Cultural and Pedagogical Foundations of Coaching Practice:

2009, Didgeridoos and Didgeridon'ts: A Brit 's Guide to Moving Your Life Down Under
Every club around Australia offers a Nippers programme. Nippers is open to children from the age of 5 through to 13 years old […]

The Nippers program, for children aged five to thirteen, promotes water safety skills and confidence in a safe beach environment

October 6, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20120321105500/http://sls.com.au/content/nipper-numbers-exceed-60000

September 5, 2013, Eve Jeffery, "Nippers season begins on the north coast", in Echonetdaily
Of our movement’s 153,000 members, over 58,500 are nippers (5-13 years). This equates to nearly 40% of our total membership and shows just how significant the junior movement is within surf lifesaving.

(Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.

(Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.

(archaic) A European crab (Polybius henslowii).


crab

crab (countable and uncountable, plural crabs)

From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (“scratch, claw at”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ-. More at carve.
Cognates
See also Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Danish krabbe, Swedish krabba.
Further cognates with frequentative-infix are Saterland Frisian krabbelje (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch krabbelen (“to scratch”) and German krabbeln (“to crawl”). Possibly related to English creep and Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”) etc.

cog

Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks.

Pthirus pubis
Pthirus pubis#Translingual

(in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).


crab

en-verb

crab (third-person singular simple present crabs, present participle crabbing, simple past and past participle crabbed)

crabs (present singular third-person)
crabbing (participle present)
crabbed (participle past)
crabbed (past)

Time slowed down then, became liquid in the aftermath of his grotesque, unfolding limbs; he crabbed his way down the faded line, rocking back and forth in braces he would use all his life.

2011, Robert Vivian, The Least Cricket of Evening, page 108:

Foot by foot, he crabbed his way down another ninety feet of rock chimney until he stood on solid ground again, still very much alive.

To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.


crab

From Middle English crabbe (“wild apple”), of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba.

The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.


yabby

Having arrived at night I can speak with some authority on the desolate feeling the road produces: the white fire-scarred trunks, the unsettling vision of yabbies moving from one side of the road to the other.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 386:

Wiradjuri people in New South Wales also built large dams, and then carried fish and yabbies in coolamons over large distances to stock the new waterholes.

2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 47:

(Australia) Any of various freshwater crayfish, typically of the genus Cherax, valued as food, especially Cherax destructor of southeastern Australia.

Callianassa australiensis is known in southern New South Wales as the "ghost-nipper" (Dakin, Bennett and Pope, 1952), and in northern New South Wales and Queensland as the "yabby" (a word of aboriginal origin also applied to freshwater crayfish).

1961, T. S. Hailstone, W. Stephenson, “The Biology of Callianassa (Trypaea) australiensis Dana 1852 (Crustacea, Thalassinidea)”, in University of Queensland Papers: Department of Zoology, volume I, number 12, page 260:

Putting the yabby on a hook takes a little care and hook sizes need to match the physical dimensions of the yabby.

2007, J. McEnally, L. McEnally, “Yabbies (saltwater)”, in Julie & Lawrie McEnally's Complete Book of Fishing Baits & Rigs, page 70:

Now she held the net in front of the pump so Penny could empty its contents. The first suck was mud, the second sometimes yielded a couple of yabbies but on the third, three or four yabbies nearly always spurted out, flicking their tails, weakly opening and closing their nippers.

2007, J. Woodford, chapter 12, in Whitecap, page 132:

(Australia, chiefly Queensland) A species of marine ghost shrimp, Trypaea australiensis, widely harvested by recreational anglers as bait; a nipper.


yabby

yabby (third-person singular simple present yabbies, present participle yabbying, simple past and past participle yabbied)

yabbies (present singular third-person)
yabbying (participle present)
yabbied (participle past)
yabbied (past)

He would have known the Merri well, given the affinity between boys and creeks, and he probably fished and yabbied there.

2005, F. Mathews, editor, Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture, page 156:

The kids in town now that have the most fun are the so-called 'feral kids'. They spend the whole days doing what we used to do, yabbying and on the river.

2006, G. Cowlishaw, editor, Bourke: Our Yarns: The Stories Behind 'Blackfellas, Whitefellas', page 83:

"Can we go yabbying?" "It'll be too hot," I say. "It's never too hot for yabbying." We are creating Christmas memories for our son.

2019, C. Zagar, Your Feet Take You To Where Your Heart Is, page 90:

(intransitive) To search, forage, or fish for yabbies.


yabby

So Abiola invite Fela to his house for a big party, and Fela have to go as they are family—even though Fela had yabbied Abiola in his song "ITT" [International Thief Thief]. And it's true, Abiola duped the country for that money—everybody knows it.

2019, J. Collins, Fela: Katakuta Notes, page 160:

(transitive, Nigeria, slang) To show disrespect by denouncing or insulting; to diss.


fiddler

From Middle English fithelere, from Old English fiþelere, from *fiþele. By surface analysis, fiddle + -er.
(capstan-house): So called because the fiddle would sometimes be played to cheer the sailors working there.

We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.

2005, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The drama of my life (in The Independent online, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-drama-of-my-life-483792.html)

The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later.

2012, Fiorenza Belussi, Udo Hermann Staber, Managing Networks of Creativity, page 92:

A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.

Actitis hypoleucos
Actitis hypoleucos#Translingual

The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.

A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.


squill

From French scille, from Latin scilla. Doublet of scilla.

A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties

Drimia maritima
Drimia maritima#Translingual

A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean


slater

From Middle English sclater, equivalent to slate + -er.

(Scotland, Australia, New Zealand) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a woodlouse.


fairy shrimp

en-noun

fairy shrimp (plural fairy shrimps or fairy shrimp)

fairy shrimps (plural)
fairy shrimp (plural)

Triops and fairy shrimp are small crustaceans that can survive years lying dormant in drought conditions. They live in the ground in eggs until weather conditions such as floods can bring them to the surface, says IFL Science.

2023 September 5, Amelia Neath, “Three-eyed ‘dinosaur shrimp’ are waking up in the desert after Burning Man washout”, in The Independent:

A small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its back.


carpenter

From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of carpintero. More at car.
Displaced native Old English trēowwyrhta (literally “tree worker”).

ncog

A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.


crustacean

en-noun

crustacean (plural crustaceans or crustacea)

Any arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles and woodlice.


shako

Borrowed from French shako, from Hungarian csákó (“cylindrical military dress hat worn by the Hungarian hussars from the 18th century to World War I”).


roly-poly

en-noun

roly-poly (countable and uncountable, plural roly-polys or roly-polies)

roly-polys (plural)
roly-polies (plural)

/ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/

The noun is apparently derived from roll (“to turn over and over”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. Compare rolly (“having the ability to roll, rolling”, adjective), which is attested since the 19th century.
Sense 1.7 (“mischievous or worthless person”) is possibly influenced by poll (“head; (archaic) scalp; (by extension) person”).
The adjective and adverb are attested later than the noun, and so are probably derived from it.

rolly-pooly

game in which balls are rolled or bowled into holes

BOBO The Roly Poly Clown / Punch him—beat him—tackle him—Bobo will bounce right back with a smile!

1950 November 27, “American-made Toys … for American Girls and Boys [advertisement]”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 79:

Among the many adaptations of the Japanese tumbler toy are those known to American children as a roly-poly and a Kelly.

1972, Arden J. Newsome, “Japanese”, in Crafts and Toys from around the World, New York, N.Y.: Julian Messner, →ISBN, page 67:

Though most often made of plastic, roly-poly tumble toys were commonly found in mid-century toy boxes.

2012, Jill Hamor, “Toys [Roly-poly Duck]”, in Lynn Koolish, editor, Storybook Toys: Sew 16 Projects from Once upon a Time, Lafayette, Calif.: Stash Books, C&T Publishing, →ISBN, page 108:

A toy that rights itself when pushed over.

起き上がり小法師

おきあがりこぼし, okiagari-koboshi; おきあがりこぼうし, okiagari-kobōshi

When you are finished with circle time, dismiss your children by helping each one do a roly-poly roll (a somersault) and roll away to their next activity.

1994, Patty Claycomb, “Roly-poly”, in Gayle Bittinger, editor, Bear Hugs for Circle Time: Positive Activities that Encourage Children to Pay Attention, Everett, Wash.: Warren Publishing House, →ISBN, page 14:

Children of this age can rarely complete a forward roll or somersault properly. […] A ‘roly poly’ roll or a tucked sideways roll will give the children just as much pleasure and also enough exercise and knowlege of turning and rolling at this stage of their development.

1997, Pauline Wetton, “Nursery Class Activities for the Primary School Hall”, in Physical Education in the Early Years (Teaching and Learning in the First Three Years at School), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 57:

(gymnastics) A forward roll or sideways roll.

A roly-poly had found his way inside the house; I reasoned that the tiny varmint had crawled up the steps. […] The creatures are no more than an inch long, and when you touch them they roll themselves into a tight gray ball.

1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 25, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, part 2, page 251:

Terrestrial isopods, commonly known as pill bugs, sow bugs, or roly-polys, are generally familiar to most of us.

1995, Henry W. Robison, Robert T. Allen, “Subphylum Crustacea: Crustaceans”, in Only in Arkansas: A Study of the Endemic Plants and Animals of the State, Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press, →ISBN, page 45:

From the window, she sees them discover a colony of roly-polies (tiny gray bugs that roll into miniature balls in the presence of danger). She delights in the wonder and fun of the children as they play gently with the tiny bugs.

1997, Clark M. Williamson, Ronald J[ames] Allen, “Worship as the Power of God”, in Adventures of the Spirit: A Guide to Worship from the Perspective of Process Theology, Lanham, Md., Oxford, Oxfordshire: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 76:

[Romy Tinkle] What is that thing, Quincy?! / [Quincy Tinkle] Um … It's a giant Rolly Polly (Pill Bug). It's been living entirely on my body-building protein powder, apparently!!

2002 May 26, J[effrey] J. Rowland, Wigu Adventures (webcomic), archived from the original on 2009-12-13:

(Canada, US) In full roly-poly bug: a small terrestrial invertebrate which tends to roll into a ball when disturbed, such as a woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea, especially a pill bug (family Armadillidiidae) or a sowbug (family Porcellionidae)) or a pill millipede (superorder Oniscomorpha).

pallosiira

Often I did view the shade / Where once a nest my eyes did fill, / And often mark'd the place I play'd / At "roly poly" down the hill.

1821, John Clare, “[Poems.] Recollections after a Ramble.”, in The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, volume I, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […]; and E[dward] Drury, […], →OCLC, stanza 8, page 128:

(uncountable, historical) An activity or game involving rolling.

(games) A game involving people (usually children) rolling down a slope.


roly-poly

en-adj

roly-poly (comparative more roly-poly, superlative most roly-poly)

more roly-poly (comparative)
most roly-poly (superlative)

/ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/

She had been waiting for the little roly-poly man to tumble and roll along the deck, and had been mentally indulging her sense of humour on the scene.

1867, Grace Ramsay [pseudonym; Kathleen O’Meara], chapter IX, in A Woman’s Trials. […], volume II, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 157:

He ducked back down the alley / With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl

1986 August, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland, performed by Paul Simon:

(often childish or humorous, informal) Short and plump; squat.


water flea

Any of various aquatic crustacea of the order Diplostraca, characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming.


gribble

Uncertain. Compare grub, from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”).

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-gribble.wav

Any of various wood-boring marine crustaceans of the genus Limnoria, especially Limnoria lignorum, which cause damage to underwater wooden structures.


marron

Cherax tenuimanus, a species of freshwater crayfish from Western Australia.


peeler

From the surname of Sir Robert Peel, who established the Irish constabulary and London's police force; compare bobby, from the given name.

A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show;
He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go.
And when at last the barber spoke, and said "'Twas all in fun—
'Twas just a little harmless joke, a trifle overdone."

1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark:

I’d covered pretty nearly two miles before I came across a peeler, — and when I did the man was cracked — and he thought me mad, or drunk, or both. By the time I’d got myself within nodding distance of being run in for obstructing the police in the execution of their duty, […] Holt was out of sight.

I was standin' there and the car came down the street with the two peelers comin' after them and I'm standin' here with [my son] in my arms.

2004, Alice McIntyre, Women in Belfast: How Violence Shapes Identity, →ISBN, page 57:

How do you fight back to get your right back to walk free down the street when your name and address singles you out for every Peeler on the beat?

2004, “Don’t Hand Me Over”, in The Box Set 1964-2004(2004) No.2, performed by Christy Moore:

Special Irish Branch was looking for Fenians in South Kensington; going from there to a Catholic church for Easter Mass was very nearly the stupidest thing Eliza could do, short of walking into Scotland Yard and cursing the peelers out in Irish.

2011, Marie Brennan, With Fate Conspire, →ISBN:

It was Jem and Georgie that was in mortal danger, true, but there was not one of us that wanted the peelers asking us questions.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A police officer.


jimmy

*
* (chocolate sprinkles): Unknown. There is much speculation that they were named after Jim Crow, but there is little, if any, evidence to support this theory.


crawdad

Alteration of crawfish (dialectal alternative of crayfish), with influence from dad.


muddy

en-verb

muddy (third-person singular simple present muddies, present participle muddying, simple past and past participle muddied)

muddies (present singular third-person)
muddying (participle present)
muddied (participle past)
muddied (past)

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English muddi, moddy, muddy (“covered with or full of mud, muddy”), from mud, mudde (“mud; turbid water”) + -i (suffix forming adjectives). Mud, mudde is possibly borrowed from Middle Dutch modde, and/or Middle Low German modde, mudde, from Proto-Germanic *mud-, *mudra- (“mud”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mew- (“moist”). The English word is analysable as mud + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives). Doublet of muddle.
The verb is derived from the adjective.
cognates
* Middle Low German moddich, muddich (German Low German muddig (“muddy; mouldy”))

cog

(also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.


muddy

From mud (crab) + -y (diminutive suffix).

Scylla serrata
Scylla serrata#Translingual

(Australia, chiefly New South Wales, Queensland, informal) The edible mud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata).


fiddler crab

a genus of crab in which the male has one hugely enlarged claw (genus Uca).

crabe appelant

Uca (genus of crab in which males have one oversized claw)


scud

en-adj

scud (comparative more scud, superlative most scud)

more scud (comparative)
most scud (superlative)

From Middle English scud (“incrustation, scurf, scab, peel, shedding”), perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to shoot, push, throw off, shed”).


scud

en-noun

scud (countable and uncountable, plural scuds)

(slang, uncountable, Scotland) Pornography.

a bottle of scud

(slang, uncountable, Scotland) The drink Irn-Bru.


rock lobster

It wasn’t a rock, it was a rock lobster


zoëa

From New Latin zōaea, zōēa, from Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) (compare ζῷον (zôion)).

(zoology) A larval stage of certain decapod crustaceans, especially of decapods such as crabs and certain Anomura, also called the copepod stage, characterized by spines on the carapace and rudimentary thoracic and abdominal limbs.


hermit crab

A decapod crustacean (not a true crab) from the superfamily Paguroidea, which salvages empty seashells or other portable objects to permanently shelter and protect its soft abdomen.


shellfish

shellfish (countable and uncountable, plural shellfish or shellfishes)

Inherited from Middle English schellefyssch, from Old English sċielfisċ. Equivalent to shell + fish.

inh+

A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well.


ghost crab

/ˈɡəʊst kɹæb/

Any of several burrowing crabs, of the genus Ocypode, found along sandy shores.


Moreton Bay bug

en-noun

Moreton Bay bug (plural Moreton Bay bugs)

Named after Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia (by way of distinguishing it from the distantly-related Balmain bug (Ibacus peronii), but also found in many parts of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean.

We settled on cumin-spiced lamb buns, Moreton Bay bug crystal dumplings and the char siu Ōra King salmon fillet.

2021 February 9, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 37, column 1:

(Australia) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family; a common seafood item.


horseman

From Middle English horsman, equivalent to horse + man.

(archaic) Any of the swift-running land crabs of the genus Ocypode.


racing crab

Any of several fast-running crabs of the family Ocypodidae.


buster

Originally a dialectal variant of burster; later influenced by bust + -er.
The combining form of the term has appeared from the early 20th century but been especially prolific during three periods: in the 1930s, owing to the success of the radio series Gang Busters; in the 1940s, owing to its appearance as military slang; and in the 1980s, owing to the success of the movie Ghostbusters.

rebenta-

person or thing that breaks or overwhelms

That's generous, old buster.

An extremely wealthy old buster.

1919, P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves, section 79:

Calvin: I'm going to watch TV all night.
Mom: That's what you think, buster!

1986 February 27, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

‘Careful, buster,’ she said. ‘I've got a knife in my hand.’

(dated, slang) Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc..

(colloquial, variously expressing familiarity, admiration, or hostility) A form of address, particularly of men: guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster'.)

variously expressing familiarity; admiration; or hostility; variously expressing familiarity; admiration; or hostility


brine shrimp

brine shrimp (plural brine shrimp or brine shrimps)

brine shrimp (plural)
brine shrimps (plural)

An aquatic crustacean of the taxonomic genus Artemia, one species of which is often marketed under the name Sea-Monkeys as a novelty gift.

artémie

an aquatic crustacean of the genus Artemia


side swimmer

An amphipod, Hyalella azteca, indigenous to the Everglades.


scampi

scampi (countable and uncountable, plural scampis or scampies or scampi)

scampis (plural)
scampies (plural)
scampi (plural)

Borrowed from Italian scampi, plural of scampo (“prawn”).

Nephrops norvegicus
Nephrops norvegicus#Translingual


sand flea

Any of various small crustaceans of the family Talitridae (order Amphipoda), that are found on beaches and jump like a flea.


doodlebug

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Soon after Richard was adopted, Orwell's flat was wrecked by a doodlebug.

2009, Robert McCrum, The masterpiece that killed George Orwell:

(informal, British) The V-1 flying bomb.

(historical, "doodlebug tractor") An automobile converted into a cheap tractor for a small farm during the Second World War.

(entomology) An antlion larva (Myrmeleontidae).

(entomology, UK) A cockchafer (genus Melolontha).

(obsolete) Individual self-propelled train cars.


crawfish

crawfish (countable and uncountable, plural crawfishes or crawfish)

1620s, folk etymology from Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice (French écrevisse), influenced by fish. Compare crayfish.

(Southern US, New York and Western US) Any of various freshwater crustaceans: crayfish.

(South Africa) Any of various marine crustaceans, rock lobster; especially Jasus lalandii, the Cape crawfish.

(Quebec, Canada, slang, derogatory) A slur against English-Canadians used in some corners of Quebec (including the Gaspé).


koura

A freshwater crayfish of the genus Paranephrops, only found in New Zealand.


penaeid

Some 63.1 percent of brackishwater production consists of penaeid shrimps.

2006, State of World Aquaculture 2006, page 10:

Any prawn of the family Penaeidae, many of which have economic importance.


royal red prawn

royal red prawn (plural royal red prawns)

A penaeid prawn, Haliporoides sibogae, found in Australian waters.


tiger prawn

It has stripes reminiscent of those of a tiger.

Penaeus monodon
Penaeus monodon#Translingual

A large marine crustacean (Penaeus monodon), widely reared for food


blue swimmer crab

blue swimmer crab (plural blue swimmer crabs)

Portunus pelagicus
Portunus pelagicus#Translingual

An edible crab (Portunus armatus, formerly included in Portunus pelagicus), found in inshore waters of southern Queensland, Australia.


soldier crab

Any of several species of the genus Mictyris, an Indo-West Pacific genus of crabs, especially


green crab

(Canada, US, South Africa) The shore crab.


stone crab

Myomenippe hardwickii, a species of crab in the family Menippidae.


mud crab

Any of various crabs, principally in families Panopeidae and Xanthidae, that live in or near mud.


shore crab

Carcinus maenas
Carcinus maenas#Translingual

A type of crab (Carcinus maenas) native to the coasts of Europe and North Africa.


spider crab

Any of various species of crab of the superfamily Majoidea with long legs

especially, true spider crabs (family Majidae).


furry lobster

Any of several lobsters, of the genus Palinurellus, whose bodies are covered in short hairs.


clam shrimp

clam shrimp (plural clam shrimps or clam shrimp)

clam shrimps (plural)
clam shrimp (plural)

Any branchiopod crustacean of the suborders Cyclestherida, Laevicaudata, or Spinicaudata (of the disused superorder Conchostraca), covered by a bivalve shell and well adopted to live in temporary, shallow ponds, with many identified extinct and extant species used to date strata.


gooseneck barnacle

gooseneck barnacle (plural gooseneck barnacles)

Any of the species Pollicipes pollicipes or its close relatives, filter-feeding crustaceans that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone, with a long and muscular stalk, which is edible and considered a delicacy in several Mediterranean countries.


isopod

Any of very many crustaceans, of the order Isopoda, that have a flattened body and no carapace.


pill bug

(US) Any of very many terrestrial crustaceans, of the family Armadillidiidae, a subgroup of the woodlice, that can roll themselves up into a protective ball.


spiny lobster

a crustacean superficially resembling a true lobster, belonging to the family Palinuridae.


branchiopod

Any of the very many aquatic crustaceans of the class Branchiopoda, such as the fairy shrimps and water fleas.


syncarid

Any crustacean of the superorder Syncarida, which have no carapace.


slipper lobster

slipper lobster (plural slipper lobsters)

Any achelate (clawless) decapod crustacean of the family Scyllaridae.


sook

Unknown origin. From Chesapeake Bay, attested as early as 1948.

The life cycle of the crab in the bay causes a preponderance of adult males (jimmy crabs) to occur in the waters of the upper bay while conversely a concentration of adult females (sook crabs) occurs in the more saline waters near the mouth of the bay (table 2).

1948, John Cleary Pearson, Fluctuations in the Abundance of the Blue Crab in Chesapeake Bay, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, page 4:

(US, eastern shore of Maryland) A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).


cephalocarid

An animal in the class Cephalocarida of crustaceans.


king crab

(poker slang) A king and a three as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.


decapod

Borrowed from French décapode, see deca- + -pod.

(zoology) Any crustacean, of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters.


copepod

From Ancient Greek κώπη (kṓpē, “handle”) + -pod.

To eat, the whale takes a wide-open gulp of water and closes its jaws to a slit so that as it pushes its tongue forwards and upwards, water is forced through the baleen while the copepods, krill and other animals it likes to eat remain in its mouth.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 270:

Any of very many small crustaceans of the subclass Copepoda, that are widely distributed and ecologically important.

橈足 /桡足

any of very many small crustaceans, of the subclass Copepoda


sandflea

Any insect of the species or genus of flying, biting, blood-sucking dipteran encountered in sandy areas.

One of the Talitridae family of marine amphipod crustaceans.


langoustine

A small edible European orange-pink lobster, Nephrops norvegicus


amphipod

1905, Mabel Elizabeth Smallwood, The Salt-marsh Amphipod: Orchestia Palustris, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, page 18,
Most of these are quite large, made by the small marsh mammals, but some are small and seem to be much used by the amphipods.

Laboratory feeding assays employing the common antarctic planktivorous fish Pagothenia borchgrevinki demonstrated that live amphipods are consumed by fish, while amphipod-sea butterfly pairs are consistently rejected.

2001, James B. McClintock, Bill J. Baker, Deborah K. Steinberg, “5: The Chemical Ecology of Invertebrate Meroplankton and Holoplankton”, in James B. McClintock, Bill J. Baker, editors, Marine Chemical Ecology, CRC Press, page 217:

We have managed just once, briefly, to send humans to that depth in a sturdy diving vessel, yet it is home to colonies of amphipods, a type of crustacean similar to shrimp but transparent, which survive without any protection at all.

2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 212:

Any species of the taxonomic order Amphipoda of small, shrimp-like crustaceans.


pawk

So blyth was he , and fou ' of pawks; -- But yet he's dead!

1749, An Elegy on the Late Mass John T-, Minister of the Gospel at M--, page 16:

and a laird May find a beggar sae prepar'd, Wi pawks and wiles, whar pith is wantin, As soon will mak him rue his tauntin.

I guess, that yours has no the art To win about a husband's heart, Nor kens the gate wi' saftening sound, And pawks, to bring ilk project round.

1811, Hector Macneill, Bygane Times, and Late Come Changes:


ostracod

From Ancient Greek ὀστρακώδης (ostrakṓdēs, “covered with shell”), from ὄστρακον (óstrakon, “clay pot; shell”); compare translingual Ostracoda.

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Considering all the ecological data, there seems to be an evolution in the associations of ostracods throughout time.

1990, Anne Van Frausum, Karel Wouters, “39: Ostracoda from Holocene calcareous tufa deposits in southern Belgium: a palaeoenvironmental analysis”, in R. Whatley, C. Maybury, editors, Ostracoda and Global Events, page 509:

This study has also shown that the fifth limb is most probably of thoracic origin and hence ostracods have only one pair of maxillae.

2000, Robin J. Smith, Koen Martens, “The ontology of the cypridid ostracod Eucypris virens (Jurine, 1820) (Crustacea, Ostracoda)”, in David J. Horne, Koen Martens, editors, Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Ostracoda, page 31:

A number of parasites and epibionts have been reported from freshwater ostracods, including cestodes, protozoans, helminthes, peritrichs, and acanthocephalans (Griffits and Evans 1994).

2012, Ivana Karanovic, Recent Freshwater Ostracods of the World: Crustacea, Ostracoda, Podocopida, page 64:

Any of many small crustaceans, of the class Ostracoda, that resemble a shrimp enclosed in a bivalve shell.


remipede

From French rémipède, partly modelled on Latin.

(zoology) Any of several small, marine, cave-dwelling crustaceans, of the class Remipedia, characterized by a short head and a long trunk bearing setose swimming appendages


sand crab

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She ran down the ribs of sand, sending the sand-crabs scurrying to their holes.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 372:

A crab of the Hippoidea superfamily of decapod crustaceans, living in sandy habitats.


cray

en-adj

cray (comparative more cray, superlative most cray)

more cray (comparative)
most cray (superlative)

Clipping of crazy, with -y to clarify pronunciation. Compare vacay (“vacation”).

That small of a fine for that kind of blatant disregard is cray.

2010 November 23, Cory Giger, “NFL commish slaps Steelers in face with weak punishment of Seymour”, in The Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pennsylvania:

Before his set, RWD somehow found time to back a quick vodka shot in the Ice Bar downstairs - yes we're aware an ice bar in the desert is cray.

2012 September, “Sharm x Savoy + Kiss = Happy RWD”, in Fazer, number 127, page 80:

Also, make sure you look both ways first, because the traffic is cray.

2013, Dani Kellner, "20 Things Your Ten Year Old Self Could Do at Cornell", Slope, Spring 2013, page 18

“Do you think when hamsters watch us eat, they think we're cute?” “How could they not? I tried to show this amazing vid to my mom. She just stared at me like I was cray. My mom and I don't have much in common anymore. It's, like, a bummer.”

2021 March 28, Janine Brito, “Dance Dance Resolution” (3:51 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 15, spoken by Violet Hart (Jillian Bell):


signal crayfish

en-noun

signal crayfish (plural signal crayfishes or signal crayfish)

signal crayfishes (plural)
signal crayfish (plural)

An American crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus, having a large claw that it waves to attract a mate.


Dungeness crab

From Dungeness, a fishing village on the coast of Washington state.

Metacarcinus magister, a species of crab found in the Pacific Ocean that has sweet-tasting meat.


caridoid

Any of various crustaceans related to shrimp.


spiny spider crab

spiny spider crab (plural spiny spider crabs)

European spider crab
European spider crab


spinous spider crab

spinous spider crab (plural spinous spider crabs)


European spider crab

European spider crab (plural European spider crabs)

A species of migratory crab, Maja squinado, found in the north-east Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea.


coconut crab

A terrestrial hermit crab of species Birgus latro, that lives on the shores of the Indian Ocean and the central Pacific Ocean and feeds on fruits, nuts, seeds and coconut flesh.


cladoceran

Any of the small crustaceans of the order Cladocera, now often Diplostraca


daphniid

(zoology) Any water flea of the family Daphniidae


peppermint shrimp

peppermint shrimp (countable and uncountable, plural peppermint shrimp or peppermint shrimps)

peppermint shrimp (plural)
peppermint shrimps (plural)

peppermint + shrimp. The alternating red and white markings resemble the traditional colors of peppermint candies.

Lysmata wurdemanni, a species of shrimp found in the Atlantic Ocean, distinctive for the bright red stripes on its otherwise translucent body.


peekytoe

We got a fresh batch of peekytoes today.

Cancer irroratus, a variety of rock crab found in the coastal waters of New England.


rock crab

Any of several kinds of crabs often found on rocky coasts, especially

Hemigrapsus sexdentatus, a large-eyed marine crab found off the coast of New Zealand, the common rock crab

Cancer irroratus, the Atlantic rock crab, a crab with large marginal teeth, found along the Atlantic coast of North America

Romaleon antennarium, the Pacific rock crab of parts of the Pacific coast of North America.


phyllopod

Any of several branchiopod crustaceans whose appendages resemble leaves


gilgie

“What say we catch gilgies? I've got a gidgee hidden down the river bank. There's some real big ones this time of year.”

1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 12:

(Australia, Western Australia) Either of two small freshwater crayfish, Cherax quinquecarinatus and Cherax crassimanus, endemic to the south-west corner of Australia.


barnacle

Uncertain, with long-debated origin. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, most likely from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), probably from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), probably from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish báirneac), from Proto-Celtic *barinākos, from *barinā (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-ākos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “rock”) which gave λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”).
First attestations referred to the goose, with corresponding folklore (q.v.).

der

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(electronics, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.


potato bug

The Jerusalem cricket, various insects of the genus Stenopelmatus.


river crab

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euphausiid

(zoology) Any member of the taxonomic order Euphausiacea of krill.


cirriped

Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia


nauplius

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Borrowed from New Latin Nauplius (former genus name) (coined by Danish naturalist Otto Friedrich Müller (1730–1784) who mistakenly thought the larvae were a separate genus of animal), from Latin nauplius (“argonaut, paper nautilus (genus Argonauta)”), from Ancient Greek ναύπλιος (naúplios, “type of shellfish”), from ναῦς (naûs, “ship”) + πλέω (pléō, “to sail”); compare Latin Nauplius (“mythological king of Euboea”), from Ancient Greek Ναύπλιος (Naúplios, “mythological founder of the city of Nauplia (Nafplio), a son of Poseidon and Amymone”).
The plural nauplii is from Latin nauplius + -iī (plural of -ius).

cog

The oval body, with the abdomen not yet differentiated, and bearing no limbs; the (usually) three pairs of limbs, representing the first and second antennæ and mandibles of the adult, together with the single eye, are the distinguishing characteristics of the nauplius stage.

1870 November 16, A[lpheus] S[pring] Packard, “The Development of Limulus Polyphemus”, in Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Boston Society of Natural History, published 1872, →OCLC, page 163:

Here is an embryo, or young form, which has just escaped from the egg, and is hurrying off seawards to "see life," without doubt, and to begin life in earnest as well. You now behold a little body, which, roughly described, we shall say has a triangular shape. It has a tail behind, and the shield or "shell" with which the little body is covered, is prolonged in front and at its side-angles or corners into spines or horns. Three pairs of feet, or appendages that resemble these organs, are possessed by the infant barnacle, the two hinder pairs being forked at their tips and provided with long bristles. A single eye appears in front of the two foremost "feet;" and a mouth, stomach, and intestine are discovered within this little body. Thus provided within and without, this little Cyclopean creature swims merrily through the sea. In this stage it is universally named the Nauplius.

1877, Andrew Wilson, “Some Animal Histories”, in Robert Brown, editor, Science for All, volume I, London, Paris, New York, N.Y.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., →OCLC, page 80, column 1:

Fairy-shrimps are primitive crustaceans, most of which live in temporary ponds, roadside ditches, or marshes that dry up in sumer. They lay thick-walled eggs that withstand summer drying and winter freezing, lying dormant in the mud until they hatch out as naupliuses when wetted by the first heavy spring rain.

1987, Ralph [Morris] Buchsbaum, Mildred Buchsbaum, John Pearse, Vicki Pearse, “Lobsters and Other Arthropods: Crustaceans”, in Animals without Backbones, 3rd edition, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 345:

It is not certain that phaseluses are trilobites and not naupliuses of crustaceans or an extinct group of arthropods that has yet to be recognized.

1997, Roger L[eroy] Kaesler, editor, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Part O, Arthropoda 1, Trilobita Revised, revised edition, volume 1 (Introduction, Order Agnostida, Order Redlichiida), Boulder, Colo.: Geological Society of America; Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas, →ISBN, page 187, column 2:

The copepod nauplii concentrations were significantly different among stations and by depth (Appendices 3 and 4).

2001, Naureen A. Qureshi, Nancy N. Rabalais, “Distribution of Zooplankton on a Seasonally Hypoxic Continental Shelf”, in Nancy N. Rabalais, R[obert] Eugene Turner, editors, Coastal Hypoxia: Consequences for Living Resources and Ecosystems (Coastal and Estuarine Studies; 58), Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, →ISBN, page 72:

I suggest that several species of nauplioids hybridized with representatives of several groups of arthropods to give them nauplius larvae. […] The occurrence of nauplius larvae in crustacean taxa appears to be almost random, and it bears little relationship to adult morphology or to evolutionary history. This is consistent with the proposal that nauplii were acquired independently and at various times, and it challenge the widely held view that nauplii played a fundamental role in crustacean evolution.

2003, Donald I[rving] Williamson, “Arthopods”, in The Origins of Larvae, revised edition, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 172:

Only nauplii that are attracted to the light at the top of the hatching tank should be collected, since these are the healthy ones.

2007, Aquaculture Management and Conservation Service, Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, “Pre-spawning Procedures”, in Improving Penaeus monodon Hatchery Practices: Manual Based on Experience in India (FAO Fisheries Technical Paper; 446), Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, →ISBN, section 3.13.2 (Nauplii), page 47:

The taxonomic distribution of nauplii within Crustacea raises questions, however, about the evolution of a nonfeeding but swimming nauplius from an embryonized nauplius. Most malacostracans lack a free nauplius stage. Euphausiaceans and dendrobranchiate shrimp, which hatch as nonfeeding nauplii, are the exceptions. Inferred phylogenies of malacostracans imply that either the ancestor lacked a free nauplius and free nauplii subsequently evolved again, or that egg nauplii evolved multiple times[…].

2018, Richard R. Strathmann, “Larvae and Direct Development”, in Gary A. Wellborn, Martin Thiel, editors, Life Histories (The Natural History of the Crustacea; 5), New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 158:

(zoology) A crustacean larva that has three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.


brachyuran

From the infraorder Brachyura (the true crabs), + -an.


malacostracan

(zoology) Any of very many crustaceans of the class Malacostraca.


macruran

(zoology, obsolete) Any of many decapod crustaceans, such as the lobster and shrimp, that were once included in the subdivision Macrura


deepwater prawn

en-noun

deepwater prawn (plural deepwater prawns)

Pandalus borealis
Pandalus borealis#Translingual

A species of shrimp found in cold parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Pandalus borealis.


great northern prawn

great northern prawn (plural great northern prawns)


northern shrimp

northern shrimp (countable and uncountable, plural northern shrimp or northern shrimps)

northern shrimp (plural)
northern shrimps (plural)


pink shrimp

pink shrimp (plural pink shrimps or pink shrimp)

pink shrimps (plural)
pink shrimp (plural)

Aesop prawn, Aesop shrimp, deepwater prawn, deep-sea prawn, great northern prawn, northern shrimp

Shrimp of species Pandalus borealis, found in cold parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.


deep-sea prawn

a species of shrimp found in cold parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Pandalus borealis.


sea spider

Any arthropod in the taxonomic class Pycnogonida.


aegid

(zoology) Any of the isopods in the family Aegidae.


calanoid

Any of the order Calanoida of copepods with a joint between the fifth and sixth body segments.


Jonah crab

Cancer borealis, a strong-clawed crab found on the Atlantic coast of North America.


leucosoid

en-adj

leucosoid (comparative more leucosoid, superlative most leucosoid)

more leucosoid (comparative)
most leucosoid (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling or pertaining to the Leucosiidae, a family of marine crabs, and possibly the Leucosioidea (superfamily) too.


stomatopod

From order name Stomatopoda, corresponding to stomato- + -pod.

Although there has been variation, stomatopods have thrived with little change in their essential design for more than four hundred million years.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 101:

(zoology) A member of the Stomatopoda order of marine crustaceans; a mantis shrimp.


malacostracous

(zoology) Belonging to the Malacostraca.


land crab

'No,' said the lad, he was not afraid; he thought they never had seen any sign of his being afraid, or using tricks as the land crabs might do, and he would prove it to them, for now he would go with them in the ship, but on the condition that they bought three cords of birch logs, exactly measured, and that he was to have the command of the ship, as if he was the skipper, on a certain day.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 187:

Any of the land-based crabs of the family Gecarcinidae.


ocypodian

(zoology, archaic) A member of the crab family Ocypodidae.


tongueworm

From tongue + worm, from the resemblance of the genus Linguatula to a vertebrate tongue.

(zoology) Any of the Pentastomida, a group of parasitic invertebrates.


sowbug

From Middle English sowe (“sow, female pig; also woodlouse”) + bug.

com

Middle English <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">sowe</i> (“sow, female pig; also woodlouse”)


cheslip

Unknown, perhaps alteration of an earlier term influenced by cheeselip.

Mouffet states that “the Asiatic Greeks called them χγαμος from their likenesse^([sic]) to a bean (Galen), for it looks like it when the Cheslip rolls itself up into a round body.”

1860, Ernest Adams, “On the names of the wood-louse”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, page 15:

In former times it was known as “Lugdor” and “Socchetre ;” and in common with the hoglouse it is familiar to rustics as “Churchlouse,” “Carpenter,” “Chinch,” or “Cheslip.”

1899, W.T. Fernie, Animal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, “Woodlouse”, page 524:

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


laemodipod

(zoology, archaic) Any of the Laemodipoda, a former group of crustaceans including the whale lice and caprellids.


stomapod

(obsolete, zoology) Any of the Stomapoda, a formerly used order of crustaceans corresponding to order Stomatopoda of mantis shrimp.


gecarcinian

(zoology) A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus or allied genera, as in family Gecarcinidae.


grapsoid

en-adj

grapsoid (comparative more grapsoid, superlative most grapsoid)

more grapsoid (comparative)
most grapsoid (superlative)

(zoology) Relating to the genus Grapsus or family Grapsidae.


grapsoid

(zoology) Any of the crabs in the genus Grapsus or family Grapsidae


scyllarian

/sɪˈlɛəɹiən/

(obsolete, zoology) Any of the family Scyllaridae of crustaceans with depressed body and broad, flat antennae; a slipper lobster


pinnothere

From Latin pīnotērēs, from Ancient Greek πινοτήρης (pinotḗrēs).

The shell-fish called a Nacre, liveth even so with the Pinnotere, which is a little creature like unto a Crabfish, and as his porter or usher waits upon him, attending the opening of the Nacre[…].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) A small crab of the genus Pinnotheres, which live symbiotically in the shells of certain molluscs.


lepadoid

(archaic, zoology) A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas or family Lepadidae; certain goose barnacles.


lady crab

I used to catch lady-crabs in the pools and under the rocks. I don't know why they are called lady-crabs. They are male and female like all the other creatures in the world.

1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 16:

Any of various crabs known for their elegant appearance or colouring.


lepas

60. The tiger tower, a mitres, a lithophagus, a purple rayed solen, a lepas, and 9 other shells.

1801, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, A Catalogue of the Whole Contents of the Celebrated Museum formed by M. De Calonne, page 58:

The peduncles of the lepases are flexible; and Dr. Weatherill has ascribed to the species which he has noticed in V. 339–342., the power of availing itself of this flexibility in "extending, shrinking, and writhing itself at pleasure."

1835, W. B. Clarke, “Remarks on some Barnacles of the Species Lepas antifera found floating off St. Adhelm's Head, on the Coast of Dorset”, in The Magazine of natural history, volume 8, page 116:

It was probably either a large mytilus, a meleagrina, or a pinna, and was certainly not a lepas.

1847, Joseph Beete Jukes, Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H. M. S. Fly, page 141:

(archaic) Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.


glass-crab

The larval state (phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, remarkable for its strange thinness and transparency.


sea slater

A littoral woodlouse of species Ligia oceanica.


cyprid

Any freshwater ostracod of the family Cyprididae.


euphausiacean

Any small, shrimplike crustacean of the order Euphausiacea; a krill.


oniscid

(zoology) Any of the Oniscidae; a woodlouse.


sacculinid

(zoology) Any of the family Sacculinidae, parasitic barnacles in the superorder Rhizocephala.


bairdi

The big surprise was how well bairdis, the larger and more expensive of the two snow crab species, moved in the U.S. market.

1991, Seafood Leader, volume 11, page 12:

A bairdi fishery with 375,000 pounds of quota was also resurrected on the South Peninsula, where crab fishing had been closed since 1989.

2002, Pacific Fishing, volume 23, numbers 1-6, page 76:

Chionoecetes bairdi, a species of snow crab.


scyllarid

(zoology) Any slipper lobster in the family Scyllaridae.


palinurid

(zoology) Any lobster-like crustacean in the family Palinuridae


porcellionid

(zoology) Any woodlouse in the family Porcellionidae.


eubelid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Eubelidae.


armadillidiid

(zoology) Any pill bug in the family Armadillidiidae.

armadilídeo

any member of the family Armadillidiidae


acanthonotozomatid

(zoology) Any member of the family Acanthonotozomatidae of crustaceans.


aeglid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Aeglidae.


albuneid

(zoology) Any member of the family Albuneidae.


alpheid

(zoology) Any member of the family Alpheidae, the pistol shrimps.


xarifiid

In order to recover xarifiids from fragments or whole colonies of Scleractinia the corals were treated in the following manner.

(zoology) Any copepod of the family Xarifiidae.


amphilochid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Amphilochidae.


ampeliscid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Ampeliscidae.


anaspidid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Anaspididae.


anisogammarid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Anisogammaridae.


anamixid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Anamixidae.


antheacherid

(zoology) Any of the copepods in the family Antheacheridae.


archaeobalanid

(zoology) Any member of the family Archaeobalanidae, stalkless acorn barnacles in the order Sessilia.


arcturid

(zoology) Any of the marine isopods in the family Arcturidae.


asellid

(zoology) Any member of the family Asellidae of crustaceans.


astacid

(zoology) Any of the crayfish in the family Astacidae


atelecyclid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Atelecyclidae.


atyid

(zoology) Any member of the family Atyidae of freshwater shrimp.


atylid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Atylidae.


augaptilid

(zoology) Any member of the family Augaptilidae of copepods.


axiid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Axiidae.


portunid

As you wade about, watch for the rapidly swimming portunid crabs that abound in sandy shallows. The king of portunids is the Common Blue Crab (Fig. 133, p. 321), an animal of legendary ferocity.

1988, Eugene H. Kaplan, Peterson Field Guides: Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores, page 25:

Four species of portunid crabs, i.e., Charybdis truncata, C. vadorum, C. feriatus and Portunus hastatoides, were trawled from the southeastern waters of Hong Kong during April 1998.

2000, Graham Blackmore, Philip S. Rainbow, “Trace Metals in Portunid Swimming Crabs from the Southeastern Waters of Hong Kong”, in Brian Morton, editor, The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China V: Proceedings of the 10th International Marine Biological Workshop, page 411:

Occurrence of portunids in the stratigraphic units mentioned above can be associated with shallow waters and neritic coastal paleoenvironments over sandy and soft bottom, beaches, estuaries, and marginal lagoons with sea grass and mangrove protected areas. Portunids are swimmers and back-burrowers.

2010, Orangel Aguilera, Dione Rodruiges de Aguilera, Francisco J. Vega, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, “6: Mesozoic and Cenozoic Decapod Crustaceans from Venezuela and Related Trace-Fossil Assemblages”, in Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, Orangel A. Aguilera, Alfredo A. Carlini, editors, Urumaco and Venezuelan Paleontology, page 115:

Any crab of the family Portunidae; a swimming crab.


bathynomid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Bathynomidae, now considered a synonym for the Cirolanidae.


balanid

(zoology) Any member of the family Balanidae, stalkless acorn barnacles in the order Sessilia.


bateid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Bateidae.


belliid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Belliidae.


bomolochid

(zoology) Any copepod of the family Bomolochidae.


branchinectid

(zoology) Any fairy shrimp of the family Branchinectidae.


branchipodid

(zoology) Any fairy shrimp of the family Branchipodidae


bopyrid

(zoology) Any isopod of the family Bopyridae.


bodotriid

(zoology) Any crustacean of the family Bodotriidae.


caligid

Any member of the Caligidae; a sea louse.


calanid

(zoology) Any member of the Calanidae, a family of copepods.


calanticid

(zoology) Any member of the family Calanticidae, gooseneck barnacles in the order Pedunculata.


calappid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Calappidae.


calliopiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Calliopiidae.


callianassid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Callianassidae.


canthocamptid

(zoology) Any member of the family Canthocamptidae of crustaceans.


candonid

(zoology) Any ostracod of the family Candonidae.


cambarid

(zoology) Any member of the family Cambaridae of crayfish of North America.


carcinid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Carcinidae.


carcineretid

(zoology) Any of the extinct crabs in the family Carcineretidae.


caprellid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Caprellidae.


cancrid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Cancridae.


carpiliid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Carpiliidae.


catoptrid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Catoptridae.


bythograeid

(zoology) Any member of the family Bythograeidae.


ceinid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Ceinidae.


centropagid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Centropagidae.


chelurid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Cheluridae.


chondracanthid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Chondracanthidae.


chirocephalid

(zoology) Any fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae.


chirostylid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Chirostylidae.


chaetiliid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Chaetiliidae.


chthamalid

(zoology) Any member of the family Chthamalidae, stalkless acorn barnacles in the order Sessilia.


cirolanid

(zoology) Any member of the family Cirolanidae of isopod crustaceans.


clausiid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Clausiidae.


clausidiid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Clausidiidae.


coleiid

(zoology) Any extinct crustacean in the family Coleiidae.


coenobitid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Coenobitidae.


corycaeid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Corycaeidae.


corophiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Corophiidae.


corystid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Corystidae.


crangonyctid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Crangonyctidae.


crangonid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Crangonidae.


cressid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Cressidae.


cryptochirid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Cryptochiridae.


cryptoniscid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Cryptoniscidae.


cyclopid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Cyclopidae.


cylindroleberidid

(zoology) Any ostracod in the family Cylindroleberididae.


cymothoid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Cymothoidae.


cypridinid

(zoology) Any ostracod in the family Cypridinidae.


cyamid

These are callosities: roughened skin caused by infestations of what ‘lice’ (which are actually parasitic crustaceans called cyamids less than an inch long that feed on flakes of skin).

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 271:

(zoology) A crustacean of the family Cyamidae; a whale louse.


cypridid

(zoology) Any ostracod in the family Cyprididae.


coronulid

(zoology) Any member of the family Coronulidae, stalkless acorn barnacles in the order Sessilia.


dairid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Dairidae.


cytherellid

According to the latter authors, domatial dimorphism takes the form of a special posterior domiciliar space for egg/brood care in females, and is found in extant ostracods such as cytherellids and the podocopid Cyprideis lineage as well as in extinct Palaeozoic groups such as kloedenellids, monotiopleurids and leperditellids.

1998, Koen Martens, Sex and Parthenogenesis, page 188:

(zoology) Any ostracod in the family Cytherellidae.


diaptomid

(zoology) Any copepod of the family Diaptomidae.


diastylid

(zoology)Any crustacean in the family Diastylidae.


dexaminid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Dexaminidae.


dogielinotid

Any of the amphipods in the family Dogielinotidae.


dorippid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Dorippidae.


dromiid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Dromiidae.


dajid

(zoology) Any member of the family Dajidae of tiny ectoparasites of krill.


ectinosomatid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Ectinosomatidae.


diogenid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Diogenidae.


entoniscid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Entoniscidae.


eophliantid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Eophliantidae.


ergasilid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Ergasilidae.


epimeriid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Epimeriidae.


erymid

(zoology) Any extinct crustacean in the family Erymidae.


eriphiid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Eriphiidae.


etyid

(zoology) Any extinct crab in the family Etyidae.


eusirid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Eusiridae.


eurysquillid

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp of the family Eurysquillidae.


eryonid

(zoology) Any extinct crustacean in the family Eryonidae.


galatheid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Galatheidae.


enoplometopid

(zoology) Any lobster-like crustacean in the family Enoplometopidae.


gammarellid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Gammarellidae.


gastrodelphyid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Gastrodelphyidae.


gecarcinid

(zoology) Any land crab of the family Gecarcinidae


gecarcinucid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Gecarcinucidae.


gammarid

(zoology) Any amphipod of the suborder Gammaridea.


geryonid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Geryonidae.


glypheid

(zoology) Any lobsterlike crustacean in the family Glypheidae.


gnathophyllid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Gnathophyllidae.


gnathiid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Gnathiidae.


gonodactylid

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the family Gonodactylidae.


grapsid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Grapsidae.


haustoriid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Haustoriidae.


herpyllobiid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Herpyllobiidae.


hexapodid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Hexapodidae.


hippid

(zoology) Any sand crab in the family Hippidae.


hippolytid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Hippolytidae.


homarid

(zoology) Any lobster in the family Homaridae, a synonym of the Nephropidae.


goneplacid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Goneplacidae.


homolodromiid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Homolodromiidae.


homolid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Homolidae.


hyalellid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Hyalellidae.


hyalid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Hyalidae.


hyperiopsid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Hyperiopsidae.


hymenosomatid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Hymenosomatidae.


hyperiid

(zoology) Any amphipod of the suborder Hyperiidea.


idoteid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Idoteidae.


ingolfiellid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Ingolfiellidae.


isaeid

(zoology)Any amphipod in the family Isaeidae.


inachid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Inachidae.


ischyrocerid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Ischyroceridae.


lampropid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Lampropidae.


latreilliid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Latreilliidae.


lepadid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lepadidae, gooseneck barnacles in the order Pedunculata.


leptodorid

(zoology) Any water flea in the family Leptodoridae.


leucosiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Leucosiidae of crabs.


lernaeopodid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Lernaeopodidae.


leuconid

(zoology) Any member of the family Leuconidae of hooded shrimps.


leucothoid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Leucothoidae.


liljeborgiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Liljeborgiidae.


lernaeodiscid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lernaeodiscidae, parasitic barnacles in the superorder Rhizocephala.


lithodid

(zoology) Any of the crab-like crustaceans in the family Lithodidae, the king crabs.


lomid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lomidae of hairy stone crabs.


limnocytherid

(zoology) Any ostracod in the family Limnocytheridae.


lysiosquillid

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the family Lysiosquillidae.


ligiid

[…] an asellote (Iathrippa longicauda) and a ligiid (Ligia italica) […]

1991, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, volumes 31-32, page 164:

(zoology) Any member of the family Ligiidae of woodlice.


lysianassid

(zoology) Any crustacean of the family Lysianassidae.


majid

(zoology) Any of the family Majidae of sea spiders or spider crabs.


macrophthalmid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Macrophthalmidae.


matutid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Matutidae.


mecochirid

(zoology) Any extinct lobsterlike crustacean in the family Mecochiridae.


melphidippid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Melphidippidae.


metridinid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Metridinidae.


menippid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Menippidae.


microcerberid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Microcerberidae.


melitid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Melitidae.


luciferid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Luciferidae.


moinid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Moinidae.


monstrillid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Monstrillidae.


munidid

(zoology) Any crustacean of the family Munididae, the squat lobsters.


limnoriid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Limnoriidae.


mytilicolid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Mytilicolidae.


mysid

(zoology) Any crustacean of the order Mysida.


nannastacid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Nannastacidae.


nebaliid

(zoology) Any member of the family Nebaliidae of small crustaceans.


nannosquillid

(zoology) Any stomatopod in the family Nannosquillidae.


nephropsid

(zoology) Any lobster in the family Nephropsidae.


mictyrid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Mictyridae.


nephropid

(zoology) Any member of the Nephropidae.


nicothoid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Nicothoidae.


niphargid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Niphargidae.


ochlesid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ochlesidae of small shrimp-like crustaceans.


ocypodid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Ocypodidae.


odiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Odiidae (now Ochlesidae) of small shrimp-like crustaceans.


odontodactylid

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the family Odontodactylidae (Odontodactylus spp.).


oedicerotid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Oedicerotidae.


oncaeid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Oncaeidae.


oplophorid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Oplophoridae.


palaemonid

(zoology) Any member of the species of family Palaemonidae.


palicid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Palicidae.


panopeid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Panopeidae.


pandalid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Pandalidae.


paracalanid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Paracalanidae.


pagurid

From translingual Paguridae (“family of right-handed hermit crabs”) or Pagurus (“type genus of hermit crabs”) + -id.

uder

(zoology) Any of the hermit crabs of family Paguridae, a right-handed hermit crab.


paracalliopiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Paracalliopiidae.


parastacid

(zoology) Any crayfish in the family Parastacidae.


parapagurid

(zoology) Any of the family Parapaguridae crab-like crustaceans.


parasquillid

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the family Parasquillidae.


parastenocaridid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Parastenocarididae.


paramelitid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Paramelitidae.


parathelphusid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Parathelphusidae.


parthenopid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Parthenopidae.


pardaliscid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Pardaliscidae.


pasiphaeid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Pasiphaeidae.


peltogastrid

(zoology) Any member of the family Peltogastridae, parasitic barnacles in the superorder Rhizocephala.


pennellid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Pennellidae.


phaennid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Phaennidae.


philosciid

(zoology) Any woodlouse in the family Philosciidae.


phliantid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Phliantidae.


phreatoicid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Phreatoicidae.


phreatogammarid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Phreatogammaridae.


phronimid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Phronimidae.


plagusiid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Plagusiidae.


pinnotherid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Pinnotheridae.


platyischnopid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Platyischnopidae.


pollicipedid

(zoology) Any member of the family Pollicipedidae of barnacles in the order Pedunculata.


podocerid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Podoceridae.


pilumnid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Pilumnidae.


polychelid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Polychelidae.


polycopid

(zoology) Any ostracod in the family Polycopidae.


polyphemid

(zoology) Any water flea in the family Polyphemidae.


pontellid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Pontellidae.


porcellanid

(zoology) Any crablike crustacean in the Porcellanidaes.


pontoporeiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Pontoporeiidae.


potamid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Potamidae.


potamonid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Potamonidae.


potamonautid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Potamonautidae.


pontogeneiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Pontogeneiidae.


procaridid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Procarididae.


pseudanthessiid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Pseudanthessiidae.


pseudocyclopiid

(zoology) Any copepod of the family Pseudocyclopiidae.


pseudothelphusid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Pseudothelphusidae.


pylochelid

(zoology) Any of the crab-like crustaceans in the family Pylochelidae.


raninid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Raninidae.


retroplumid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Retroplumidae.


rhynchocinetid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Rhynchocinetidae.


sapphirinid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Sapphirinidae.


urothoid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the Urothoidae.


varunid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Varunidae.


sebid

(zoology) Any member of the family Sebidae of crustaceans.


sergestid

(zoology) Any member of the family Sergestidae of decapods.


serolid

(zoology) Any member of the family Serolidae of certain isopod crustaceans.


sesarmid

(zoology) Any member of the family Sesarmidae of crabs.


sicyoniid

(zoology) Any prawn in the family Sicyoniidae.


speleonectid

(zoology) Any remipede in the family Speleonectidae.


sphaeromatid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Sphaeromatidae.


splanchnotrophid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Splanchnotrophidae.


squillid

(zoology) Any in the family Squillidae of mantis shrimps.


stenopodid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Stenopodidae.


stegocephalid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Stegocephalidae.


stilipedid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Stilipedidae.


streptocephalid

(zoology) Any fairy shrimp in the family Streptocephalidae.


stylodactylid

(zoology) Any member of the family Stylodactylidae.


styloniscid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Styloniscidae.


synaxid

(zoology) Any furry lobster in the family Synaxidae, a synonym for the Palinuridae.


synaptiphilid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Synaptiphilidae.


taeniacanthid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Taeniacanthidae.


telsid

(zoology) Any member of family Telsidae of crustaceans.


temorid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Temoridae.


talitrid

To cope with daily variation of environmental parameters, talitrids evolved a migratory behaviour, synchronized with tidal and nictemeral cycles, that enable them to locate the suitable patches of habitat on the shore (Pardi and Ercolini 1986).

2012, F.M. Faranda, Mediterranean Ecosystems: Structures and Processes, page 392:

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Talitridae.


thalassinid

(zoology) Any mud lobster in the family Thalassina.


tetrasquillid

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the family Tetrasquillidae.


thamnocephalid

(zoology) Any fairy shrimp in the family Thamnocephalidae.


tegastid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Tegastidae.


trichoniscid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Trichoniscidae.


trichodactylid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Trichodactylidae.


triopsid

(zoology) Any member of family Triopsidae of tadpole shrimps.


tuccid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Tuccidae.


tylid

(zoology) Any woodlouse in the family Tylidae.


copepodite

Any of the five stages (of twelve total) in the life-cycle of a copepod prior to the sexually mature adult


copepodid

The post-naupliar larval stage of a copepod


swimming crab

In normal years, swimming crabs do not occur in the Humboldt Current area south of Paita (5°S) but are restricted to the extreme north of Perú, Ecuador and Colombia.

1990, W. E. Arntz, J. Tarazona, “Effects of El Niño 1982-83 on Benthos, Fish and Fisheries off the South American Pacific Coast”, in P. W. Glynn, editor, Global Ecological Consequences of the 1982-83 El Niño-Southern Oscillation, page 342:

Numerous species of crabs occur on the soft sediments between reefs, particularly swimming crabs of the genera Charybdis and Portunus. Among these is the edible blue swimming crab, Portunus armatus (previously known as P. pelagicus) (Fig. 23.4J) and mud crab, Scylla serrata (Fig. 23.4G).

2008, S. T. Ahyong, “23: Arthropoda: Crustaceans and Pycnogonids”, in Pat Hutchings, Mike Kingsford, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, editors, The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management, page 274:

The majority of true crabs are aquatic, or at least virtually so. These include swimming crabs in which the last pair of walking legs end, not in claws, but in paddles.

2010, Michael Samways, Peter Hitchins, Orty Bourquin, Jock Henwood, Tropical Island Recovery: Cousine Island, Seychelles, page 95:

Any of many marine crabs of the family Portunidae, whose hindmost legs are flattened into paddles.


Lernean

(Greek mythology, archaeology) From or pertaining to Lerna, a former coastal lake and Helladic site on the Peloponnese.


European lobster

en-noun

European lobster (plural European lobsters)

Homarus gammarus
Homarus gammarus#Translingual


tharybid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Tharybidae.


porocephaliasis

A parasitic infection by species in the closely related genera Porocephalus and Armillifer and other tongue worms in order Porocephalida.


sea louse

Any copepod within the family Caligidae (order Siphonostomatoida); a kind of marine ectoparasite that feeds on the mucus, epidermal tissue and blood of fishes.


crabling

The juvenile members of most of our seaside communities are much given to crab-fishing, and may be seen from early morn to evening late, dangling their legs over some convenient rock, sea-wall, or landing-steps, and with a piece of twine to which a dainty morsel of fish offal has been tied, doing their best to induce some greedy young crabling to grasp it with his nippers, [...]

1867, William Barry Lord, Crab, shrimp, and lobster lore:

This was, after all, the easiest kind of life a simple-minded crabling such as he could hope to achieve, and so Galoo's words did well to play upon his fears. the sea-swindler went on to say, giving the crabling a slight push to go.

2009, R. Y. Gheith, The Complete Isaac Trilogy:


lobsterling

In the first few days of the fourth stage the lobsterlings are good swimmers — this is their "redeeming vice" — but the swimming is strong and bears no comparison to the aimless drifting movement characteristic of larval stages.

1910, Albert Davis Mead, A method of lobster culture:

The approach of the molt seems to start the lobsterling on its course to the bottom; accordingly when this is delayed until after the fourth stage, it probably does not often occur until the approach of the succeeding molt.

1911, Francis Hobart Herrick, Natural history of the American lobster:


entomostracean

(zoology, dated) Any of the Entomostraca, a historical subclass of crustaceans.


alpheid shrimp

alpheid shrimp (plural alpheid shrimps or alpheid shrimp)

alpheid shrimps (plural)
alpheid shrimp (plural)


snapping shrimp

snapping shrimp (plural snapping shrimps or snapping shrimp)

snapping shrimps (plural)
snapping shrimp (plural)


pistol shrimp

pistol shrimp (plural pistol shrimps or pistol shrimp)

pistol shrimps (plural)
pistol shrimp (plural)

The snapping claw is reminiscent of a pistol.

An shrimp (Alpheidae) which has asymmetrical claws, the larger of which can be used to produce a loud snapping sound and shockwave that can stun or kill its prey.


mantis shrimp

mantis shrimp (plural mantis shrimps or mantis shrimp)

mantis shrimps (plural)
mantis shrimp (plural)

A stomatopod, a marine crustacean of the order Stomatopoda, with powerful claws and a carapace which covers only the rear part of the head and part of the thorax.

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whale louse

Crablike whale lice dig deeply into sores and cuts.

1971 Mar, National Geographic, page 411:

A parasitic amphipod crustacean of the family Cyamidae found in skin lesions, genital folds, nostrils and eyes of marine mammals of the order Cetacea, i.e. whales, dolphins and porpoises.

valaantäi

parasitic crustacean of the family Cyamidae


munnopsoid

Any of the genus Munnopsis of deep-sea crustaceans.


trilobitoide

Ceratoserolis trilobitoides
Ceratoserolis trilobitoides

A serolid isopod of the genus Ceratoserolis, but especially Ceratoserolis trilobitoides


peracarid

(zoology) Any crustacean of the superorder Peracarida.


lysianassoid

(zoology) Any crustacean of the family Lysianassidae.


hermie

If a favorite variety tends to “go hermie", growers often pick out individual male flowers as they are discovered. Some growers let the pollen from these hermaphrodites fertilize females.

2002, Jorge Cervantes, Indoor Marijuana Horticulture, →ISBN:

2007, KS Augustin, Hunted Hermaphrodite Lover, Challis Tower (publ.), →ISBN.
Get rid of the hermie, get rid of the sex-starved engineer, jail the saboteur, write the reports, then sit back and enjoy the peace.


conchostracan

(zoology) Any clam shrimp of the former order Conchostraca.


alvinocarid

Any deep-sea shrimp of the genus Alvinocaris


bait bug

A crustacean of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches.


beach flea

Any of various amphipod crustaceans of the family Talitridae, which live on beaches and jump like fleas.


mudprawn

Upogebia africana, a shrimp endemic to South Africa.


sandprawn

Kraussillichirus kraussi, a kind of shrimp.


carcinization

term-label

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

/ˌkɑːsɪnɪˈzeɪʃn̩/

From Ancient Greek καρκῐ́νος (karkĭ́nos, “crab”) + English -ization (suffix forming nouns denoting the act, process, or result of doing or making something), coined by British zoologist Lancelot Alexander Borradaile (1872–1945) in a 1916 report: see the quotation.

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[page 121] Porcellanopagurus is a quite independent case of the phenomenon which may be called "carcinization," and which consists essentially in a reduction of the abdomen of a macrurous crustacean, together with a depression and broadening of its cephalothorax, so that the animal assumes the general habit of body of a crab. [...] [page 125] It may be doubted whether the conditions of life play any part other than a purely permissive one in the realization of the tendency to carcinization. [...] The tendency to carcinization, emerging independently from time to time, has led in each case to different habits, but the obligation to the change must have lain always within, not without the obligation.

1916, L[ancelot] A[lexander] Borradaile, Crustacea. Part II.—Porcellanopagurus: An Instance of Carcinization (British Museum (Natural History); British Antarctic (“Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910, Natural History Report; Zoology; vol. III, no. 3), London: […] Trustees of the British Museum; […], →OCLC, pages 121 and 125:

[L]arval forms of the two groups [hermit crabs and king crabs] are remarkably alike; and carcinization (the evolution of crablike features) appears to have been a recurring theme in hermit crab evolution under ecological circumstances where the shells of gastropod snails are of limited availability (as for example in the deep sea).

1994, John C[harles] Avise, “Species Phylogenies and Macroevolution”, in Molecular Markers, Natural History and Evolution, Boston, Mass., Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, published 2001, →ISBN, part II (Application), page 309:

Presumably, to become a "true crab" requires that a reptant decapod undergo carcinization (Borradaile, 1916) or brachyurization (Števcic, 1971). Although the two terms appear here to be synonymous, we believe that not all authors who have employed "carcinization" or "brachyurization" have had quite the same phenomenon in mind. For example, Martin & Abele (1986) defined carcinization as the reduction and folding of the abdomen beneath the thorax, whereas Sluys (1992) used carcinization to mean the evolution of a crab-like appearance as in lithodids. To Blackstone (1989) hermit crabs became carcinized through broadening of the carapace and reduced shell-inhabiting. In this first component we address anomuran carcinization only from the perspective of adult morphology.

1997 January, Patsy A. McLaughlin, Rafael Lemaitre, “Carcinization in the Anomura – Fact or Fiction?: I. Evidence from Adult Morphology”, in Contributions to Zoology, volume 67, number 2, Amsterdam: SPB Academic Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-12-12, page 79, column 2:

It seems certain that carcinisation, return to a crab-like habitus, has evolved several times in the Anomura.

2004, Gary C. B. Poore, “Anomura – Hermit Crabs, Porcelain Crabs and Squat Lobsters”, in Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia: A Guide to Identification, Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, page 215:

Three independent carcinization events are identified (in Lithodidae, Porcellanidae, and Lomisidae). [...] Such a scenario may seem unlikely owing to the complex characters involved, but if carcinization has multiple, independent origins, then adaptation to dextral shell habitation may also be plausible.

2009, Shane T[imothy] Ahyong, Kareen E. Schnabel, Elizabeth W. Maas, “Anomuran Phylogeny: New Insights from Molecular Data”, in Joel W. Martin, Keith A. Crandall, Darryl L. Felder, editors, Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics (Crustacean Issues; 18), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, published 15 January 2015, →ISBN, abstract, page 399:

Porcellanids are, after brachyuran crabs, the most successful decapod group to achieve a crab-like body form through carcinisation. Unlike brachyurans, porcellanids retained the ability to swim by flapping their abdomen, armed with a well developed tail fan. Here, we present an exceptional case of carcinisation, with the South-American porcellanid, Allopetrolisthes spinifrons, an obligatory commensal of the sea-anemone species Phymactis papillosa and Phymanthea pluvia.

2010, Alexandra Hiller, Carlos Antonio Viviana, Bernd Werding, “Hypercarcinisation: An Evolutionary Novelty in the Commensal Porcellanid Allopetrolisthes spinifrons (Crustacea: Decapoda: Porcellanidae)”, in Nauplius^(https://web.archive.org/web/20120425232740/http://www.crustacea.org.br/artigos/728_25_18(1)_95-102_-_Hiller,_Viviani,_Werding.pdf), volume 18, number 1, São Paulo, Brazil: Sociedade Brasileira de Cancerologia, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-04-25, abstract, page 95:

Porcelain crabs (Galatheoidea: Porcellanidae) and the hairy stone crab (Lomisoidea: Lomisidae) are also highly carcinised. They represent two additional independent instances of carcinisation within the Anomura, although their derivation has received much less attention than that of the king crabs.

2011, Shane T[imothy] Ahyong, Kareen A. Schnabel, Enrique Macpherson, “Phylogeny and Fossil Record of Marine Squat Lobsters”, in Gary C. B. Poore, Shane T. Ahyong, Joanne Taylor, editors, The Biology of Squat Lobsters, Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing; Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 78, column 1:

convergent evolution
convergent evolution

(evolutionary theory, zoology) The convergent evolution of decapod crustaceans from forms dissimilar to true crabs into similar forms.

Contributions to Zoology
Lancelot Alexander Borradaile


salve bug

(obsolete) A parasitic isopod crustacean (Aega psora). In the 19th century it was used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve, although its medicinal effects are dubious.


oniscidean

Nevertheless, these studies strongly suggest that arginine is not an essential amino acid in oniscideans.

1995, Patrick J. Walsh, Patricia A. Wright, Nitrogen Metabolism and Excretion, page 112:

The oniscidean digestive system has been extensively studied and well described in both slaters and sowbugs (Hames and Hopkin 1989; Štrus et al. 1995).[…]Frequent moulting is an important characteristic of juvenile and adult oniscideans and is related to growth, renewal of the cuticle and reproduction in mature females.

2006, Rok Kostanjšek, Jasna Štrus, Aleš Lapanje, Gorazd Avguštin, Maja Rupnik, Damjana Drobne, “5: Intestinal Microbiota of Terrestrial Isopods”, in Helmut König, Ajit Varma, editors, Intestinal Microorganisms of Termites and Other Invertebrates, page 116:

Some oniscideans, which are ordinarily terrestrial, have re-invaded the continental saline waters (e.g. Haloniscus searlei) or even normal freshwater (e.g. Trichoniscidae and Styloniscidae).

2008, George D. F. Wilson, Global diversity of Isopod crustaceans (Crustacea; Isopoda) in freshwater:

(zoology) Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea; a woodlouse.

synonyms at woodlouse

(any species of suborder Oniscidea): woodlouse


strawberry crab

en-noun

strawberry crab (plural strawberry crabs)

A small speckled bright pink crab of species Neoliomera pubescens, found in the Indo-Pacific.


carp louse

A small crustacean of the family Argulidae, parasitic on fishes.


masked crab

Corystes cassivelaunus, a burrowing crab with patterns on the carapace which may resemble a human face.


velvet crab

From the short hairs on the body, which give the crab a velvety texture.

Necora puber, the largest swimming crab found in British coastal waters.


rock barnacle

Semibalanus balanoides, an acorn barnacle common on rocks and other substrates in the intertidal zone of northwestern Europe and both coasts of North America.


oyster crab

Zaops ostreus, a small whitish or translucent crab found inside oysters.


notopod

The notopods begin on the second or third segment and the neuropods are very variable in their segment of origin, being sometimes altogether absent from the anterior region.

1935, John Roxborough Norman, Coast Fishes: South Atlantic:

(zoology) In Latreille's system, a brachyurous decapod crustacean, such as a crab of the genera Homola, Dorippe, Dromia, Dynomene, Ranina.

(entomology) An elaterid; a click beetle.


rhizocephalan

(zoology) Any member of the Rhizocephala.


supergiant amphipod

supergiant amphipod (plural supergiant amphipods)

Any of several very large crustaceans of the genus Alicella, found at great ocean depths.


teppo snapping shrimp

teppo snapping shrimp (plural teppo snapping shrimps or teppo snapping shrimp)

teppo snapping shrimps (plural)
teppo snapping shrimp (plural)

Any of species Alpheus brevicristatus of snapping shrimp, distributed in East-Asian coastal waters.


monstrilloid

(zoology) Any copepod in the order Monstrilloida.


poecilostomatoid

(zoology) Any member of the order Poecilostomatoida of copepods.


crabfish

crabfish (plural crabfish or crabfishes)

Cancer fluviatilis, River crabfish, The ashes of these fishes (as Galen saith) are of wonderfull vertue, by the propertie of their substance, against the biting of a mad dogge.

1631, Thomas Spackman, A Declaration of Such Greivous accidents as commonly follow the biting of mad Dogges, together with the cure thereof, London: John Bill, page 79:

(archaic) A freshwater crab found in Southern European rivers, streams, and lakes, Potamon fluviatile or Cancer fluviatilis.


reef crab

Ozius truncatus, a crab of the family Menippidae, endemic to parts of Australia and New Zealand.


black finger crab

black finger crab (plural black finger crabs)


dead man's fingers

Any of several plants or other organisms with fleshy finger-like structures:


acorn barnacle

Any of several species of stalkless barnacles in the genus Balanus.


alvinocaridid

Partial 16S sequences are only available for 10 alvinocaridid species (Table 4 ).

2015 July 11, “Phylogeny and New Classification of Hydrothermal Vent and Seep Shrimps of the Family Alvinocarididae (Decapoda)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any shrimp of the family Alvinocarididae that inhabit deep-sea hydrothermal vents.


dendrobranchiate

(zoology) Any member of the Dendrobranchiata.


whalefeed

A minute crustacean, Munida gregaria, eaten by baleen whales.


assellote

All these habitats are species poor: aside from amphipod fauna, assellote isopods, trichopteran, plecopteran and ephemeropteran larvae, erpobdelid leeches and salamander larvae were also found, but no fishes were observed.

2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


skeleton shrimp

skeleton shrimp (plural skeleton shrimps or skeleton shrimp)

skeleton shrimps (plural)
skeleton shrimp (plural)

Any member of the Caprellidae, a family of amphipods with a slender thread-like body.


snow crab

(by extension) Any crab of the genus Chionoecetes of spider crabs.


Norway lobster

A small European lobster of the species Nephrops norvegicus.


tantulocarid

(zoology) Any of the Tantulocarida, a group of parasitic crustaceans.


lawn shrimp

lawn shrimp (plural lawn shrimp or lawn shrimps)

lawn shrimp (plural)
lawn shrimps (plural)

Arcitalitrus sylvaticus
Arcitalitrus sylvaticus#Translingual

Various species of terrestrial amphipods (commonly Arcitalitrus sylvaticus), found in lawns or other vegetation.


thecostracan

While nine barnacle species are recorded for the German sectors of the North and Baltic Sea [95 ], the total number of thecostracan species inhabiting the North Sea is unknown.

2015 September 30, “The Application of DNA Barcodes for the Identification of Marine Crustaceans from the North Sea and Adjacent Regions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any barnacle etc. of the class Thecostraca (formerly a subclass).


mystacocarid

(zoology) Any member of the Mystacocarida, a subclass or order fo the maxillopods.