thermosbaenacean

In the case of leptostracans, brooding takes place ventrally between the mother’s thoracopods, which form a large basket holding the developing embryos, while brooding in thermosbaenaceans takes place dorsally under an enlarged part of the carapace, and that of isopods take place ventrally in a marsupium formed, probably, by modified thoracopodal epipods.

2015 December 19, “Naupliar and Metanaupliar Development of Thysanoessa raschii (Malacostraca, Euphausiacea) from Godthåbsfjord, Greenland, with a Reinstatement of the Ancestral Status of the Free-Living Nauplius in Malacostracan Evolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any member of the Thermosbaenacea, a group of crustaceans found in thermal springs.


leptostracan

Any crustacean of the order Leptostraca.


halocyprid

This genus exemplifies some of the prevailing taxonomic uncertainties in halocyprids.

2016 January 6, “Identification, Discrimination, and Discovery of Species of Marine Planktonic Ostracods Using DNA Barcodes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any ostracod in the order Halocyprida.


sea monkey

'I think one of my sea monkeys is ill.'
He holds the small plastic sea tank aloft and points at a black speck the size of a pinhead.

2008, Anna Nicholas, Cat on a Hot Tiled Roof: Mayhem in Mayfair and Mallorca:

Greg is a sea monkey farmer. Every year he sells 4.5% of his herd (if that's what you'd call a group of sea monkeys) at the international sea monkey auction.

2011, Linus Christian Rollman, Greg Logan Neps, Crocodiles and Coconuts, page 44:

A brine shrimp, sold as a novelty aquarium pet.


red rock crab

Any of the red crabs often found living on rocky coasts.

Guinusia chabrus (formerly Plagusia chabrus), found in the southern Indian and Pacific Oceans from South Africa to Chile


angustidontid

Any crustacean of the family †Angustidontidae


cumacean

From the second sampling campaign, two cumacean species collected at Isla D and polychaetes (suborder Terebellida, family Ampharetidae) were added to the dataset.

2015 November 12, “Benthic Trophic Interactions in an Antarctic Shallow Water Ecosystem Affected by Recent Glacier Retreat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


landhopper

(zoology) Any of the terrestrial talitrids.


gammaridean

(zoology) Any amphipod of the suborder Gammaridea.


lockchester

Uncertain. Probably derived in English from lock + chest + -er. Compare lugdor. Attested a. 1400.

Of these, the last only will be found in a dictionary of modern English, but I have already remarked that the name of lockchester is preserved among the peasantry of Oxfordshire, and I may add, that the peasantry in the North of England still call a woodlouse a kitchen-ball, and that those of the Southern dialects call it a chissel-bol, which is perhaps the representative of cheslop.

1857, Thomas Wright, On the History of the English Language, page 22:

Mr. Halliwell, walking in a garden in Oxfordshire, accidentally overheard the gardener talking about lockchesters, and immediately asking him what these were, received for answer that they were woodlice.

1861, Thomas Wright, Essays on archaeological subjects, page 47:

But who will not be puzzled to hear that wood-lice are still, in some parts of Oxfordshire, called Lockchesters, and that there is evidence to show that this strange name was once, not only in provincial, but in general use?

1863 April 11, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 471:

(obsolete, Oxfordshire) Synonym of woodlouse


dairy cow

The Holstein Friesian is an excellent dairy cow. [breed]

He runs a herd of dairy cows, including his own bulls. [cattle beast]

Mastitis impairs a dairy cow’s output. [lactating female]

Any breed of cow bred for the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made; an individual cattle beast of such a breed; especially, a female cow who has calved and lactated.


oniscoid

(zoology) A member of the Oniscoidea; a woodlouse.


ghost nipper

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


ghost shrimp

en-noun

ghost shrimp (plural ghost shrimps or ghost shrimp)

ghost shrimps (plural)
ghost shrimp (plural)

Any of various aquatic crustaceans of the infraorder Thalassinidea, the genus Palaemonetes, or the family Caprellidae.


king prawn

"You got to wait for the tide to run out for prawns. They come down with the tide. And you got to wait till the little ones go down to get the big king-prawns. They always come down last."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 136:

Any of a number of large edible shrimp or similar crustaceans, especially of genus Penaeus.


reptantian

In many reptantian crustaceans, the fast flexor muscles are used in two distinct forms of tailflipping.

2015, Zen Faulkes, M Fabiana Kubke, “Motor neurons in the escape response circuit of white shrimp (Litopenaeus setiferus)”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI:


phyllocarid

Any crustacean of the subclass Phyllocarida.


anchistioidid

The two species from the sole anchistioidid genus ( Anchistioides ) formed a strong clade in all analyses.

2015, Sammy De Grave et al., “Let’s be pals again: major systematic changes in Palaemonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda)”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI:

Any shrimp of the family Anchistioididae.


palaemonoid

The other palaemonoid families are therein jointly defined primarily by the slender third maxilliped and the mandible usually with a prominent incisor.

Any shrimp of the superfamily Palaemonoidea


pontoniine

Of course, concomitant with the rich bauplan diversity of pontoniine and palaemonine taxa, more variation exists than herein illustrated.

Any shrimp of the subfamily Pontoniinae.


hymenocerid

Instead, there appear to be at least two clades of Pontoniinae species (Clades I and II as per Kou et al., 2013b ; Gan et al., 2015 ), including the ex-gnathophyllid and hymenocerid genera in Clade II, and yet these two clades of Pontoniinae do not necessarily form a clade with each other ( Fig.


isopodan

(zoology) Of or relating to the isopods.


heikegani

Heikeopsis japonica, a species of crab native to Japan, with a shell that bears a pattern resembling a human face.


penaeidean

Any marine crustacean of the family Penaeidae


cheeselog

Uncertain. Perhaps alteration of an earlier term through folk etymology influenced by cheese and log. Compare cheslip, lockchester.

The only local word anybody mentioned was 'cheeselog' (meaning 'woodlouse' - Ed). I think it comes from an American cake that's long and thin, and has segments.

2005 January 26, Paul Kerswill, “The Sound of Reddin”, in BBC:

2006 May 30, jellyjelly, “Getting rid of cheeselogs/woodlouse?”, in Mumsnet:


Marmorkrebs

From German Marmorkrebs (“marbled crayfish”).

Development of the 2nd maxilla and the scaphognathite in the parthenogenetic Marmorkrebs (Astacida).

2009, Gerhard Scholtz, Arkhat Abzhanov, Frederike Alwes, Caterina Biffis, Julia Pint, Crustacean Issues 18: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, CRC Press, page 39:

When Marmorkrebs, the parthogenetic marbled crayfish, were discovered, researchers immediately recognised their great potential to become an emerging model organism.

2015, Steffen Harzsch, Jakob Krieger, Zen Faulkes, Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Inverterbrates, Vol. 4 - Ecdysozoa II: "Crustacea", Springer, page 106:

They tested various generations of a Marmorkrebs population by microsatellite markers and found that all specimens were identical in their allelic composition.

2016, Catherine Souty-Grosset, Biology and Ecology of Crayfish, CRC Press, page 54:

marbled crayfish
marbled crayfish#English


aegloid

Any crustacean of the superfamily Aegloidea


chirostyloid

Any crustacean of the superfamily Chirostyloidea


munidopsid

Any squat lobster of the family Munidopsidae but especially of the genus Munidopsis


galatheoid

Any decapod crustacean of the superfamily Galatheoidea


paguroid

Any hermit crab of the superfamily Paguroidea


squat lobster

Any of many decapod crustacea of the superfamilies Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea, both in suborder Anomura.


scalpellid

Any gooseneck barnacle of the family Scalpellidae


brown crab

Ellipsis of brown king crab. (Lithodes aequispinus)


edible crab

Cancer pagurus
Cancer pagurus#Translingual

North Atlantic Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean

Cancer pagurus; a species of robust crab of a reddish-brown color found in the North Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, and perhaps in the Mediterranean Sea.


common lobster

European lobster
European lobster#English


sentinel crab

Any of various crabs of the genus Macrophthalmus, with long eyestalks.


gammaroidean

Any shrimp of the superfamily Gammaroidea


thaumatocypridid

Any ostracod of the family Thaumatocyprididae


butcher boy

He had clearly become a satyr once again, as evidenced by the rosy-faced butcher-boy that Moore met upon visiting him. The word butcher-boy was, like telegraph-boy, a euphemism for a male prostitute

1997, Ellis Hanson, “The Dialectic of Shame and Grace”, in Decadence and Catholicism, →OCLC, page 81:

(uncommon, slang, euphemistic) A male prostitute.


lugdor

Apparently derived from lock and door (compare lockchester) or perhaps dor (“dung beetle”). Attested from the 15th century.

Comparing the terms lok-dore and loc-chester, it is evident that the first portion of the word is an independent element, lok; and this is still further confirmed by another synonyme^([sic]) for the wood-louse recorded by Halliwell with no indication of time or locality, viz. lug-dor.

1860, Ernest Adams, “On the names of the wood-louse”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, page 9:

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:

(British, regional, archaic) the woodlouse


archaeostracan

Any extinct crustacean of the order Archaeostraca


notostracan

Any shrimp of the order Notostraca, now the single family Triopsidae (tadpole shrimp or shield shrimp).


thaumatopsyllioid

Any crustacean of the order Thaumatopsylloida


porocephalid

Any tongueworm of the order Porocephalida


podocopid

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:


thalassinidean

A decapod crustacean of the former infraorder Thalassinidea


eryonoid

Any extinct decapod crustacean of the family Eryonidae


hyperiidean

(zoology) Any amphipod of the suborder Hyperiidea.


leptognathiid

Any malacostracan crustacean of the family Leptognathiidae


acrothoracican

Any barnacle of the superorder Acrothoracica


bopyroid

Any isopod of the superfamily Bopyroidea


epicaridean

Any isopod of the former suborder Epicaridea (now named Cymothoida)


gebiidean

Any decapod crustacean of the infraorder Gebiidea


balanomorphan

Any barnacle of the suborder Balanomorpha


cirripedian

Any barnacle of the infraclass Cirripedia


anthuroid

Any isopod of the superfamily Anthuroidea


cryptoniscoid

Any isopod of the superfamily Cryptoniscoidea


cymothooid

Any isopod of the superfamily Cymothooidea


Hoff crab

From (the) Hoff, nickname of actor David Hasselhoff, with reference to the resemblance of his hairy chest to the crab's dense covering of ventral setae + crab.

A species of lobster, Kiwa tyleri, that inhabits deep-sea hydrothermal vents near Antarctica.


janiroidean

Any isopod of the superfamily Janiroidea


sergestoid

Any prawn of the superfamily Sergestoidea


daggerblade grass shrimp

daggerblade grass shrimp (plural daggerblade grass shrimps)

A grass shrimp of species Palaemon pugio


crawldad

Variant of crawdad, apparently influenced by crawl.

“Anybody here every pour concrete?” I asked the group. “I'm not the concrete pourer or the concrete pourer's son ...” came back the cheerful chorus of replies as Quentin, staggering a little, wandered up from the creek to join us, complaining that a crawl-dad had bitten him.

1998, HomerHickam Jr., October Sky, page 140:


crawlfish

crawlfish (countable and uncountable, plural crawlfish)

Variant of crawfish, apparently influenced by crawl.

Crayfish, crawlfish, crawdads, or crabs, as they are locally and variously known, are all more or less cylindrical, and the body and appendages are strongly sclerotized.

2005, Amita Saxena, Text Book of Crustacea, page 35:

I usually leave spelling mistakes and typos alone. But I just love your crawlfish. They do crawl! We grew up calling them crawdads or crawdaddies. But not crawldads.
The French word is ecrevisse. I imagine that's where crayfish and crawfish come from. Or crawled from.

2019 April 3, “Crawlfish boil [comment]”, in Trip Advisor:


fish louse

Any aquatic crustacean which is a parasite of fish, typically attached to the skin or gills

Synonym of carp louse (family Argulidae)


branchiuran

Any fish louse of the subclass Branchiura


onychopod

Any branchiopod crustacean of the suborder Onychopoda


marbled crayfish

marbled crayfish (countable and uncountable, plural marbled crayfish or marbled crayfishes)

marbled crayfish (plural)
marbled crayfishes (plural)

Calque of German Marmorkrebs, from Marmor (“marble”) + Krebs (“crab”).

Procambarus virginalis
Procambarus virginalis#Translingual

(uncountable) Procambarus virginalis; an all-female species of crayfish that reproduces without sex.


anomopod

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Any crustacean of the suborder Anomopoda


armadillo bug

At Tulpehocken Street, playing in the woodpile by the stable, the creature, which I called an armadillo bug, somehow got into my ear.

1946, Cornelius Weygandt, On the Edge of Evening, →OCLC, page 21:

Dad held his breath while Pam rolled over like an armadillo bug. Mom stood up from her chair and wandered to the edge of the porch watching, but Pam wasn't hurt. She hadn't even let go of the ball!

2003, Helen Kay Polaski, Forget me Knots... from the Front Porch, →ISBN, page 70:

A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial isopods of suborder Oniscidea.


seed shrimp

en-noun

seed shrimp (plural seed shrimps or seed shrimp)

seed shrimps (plural)
seed shrimp (plural)

Seed shrimps (Ostracoda), usually less than 0.1 inch long, are bivalved (clamlike) crustaceans found in fresh waters of all types.

1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86:


American lobster

American lobster (plural American lobsters)

Homarus americanus
Homarus americanus#Translingual

Any lobster in the species Homarus americanus, native to the Atlantic coast of northeastern North America.


Maine lobster

The American lobster, Homarus americanus.


mud lobster

Any of a number of decapod crustaceans in the infraorders Axiidea and Gebiidea (true lobsters are in the related infraorder Astacidea)


bathynellacean

Any crustacean of the order Bathynellacea


spelaeogriphacean

Any crustacean, of the order Spelaeogriphacea, that inhabit caves


sand shrimp

Crangon crangon (brown shrimp, common shrimp, bay shrimp, grey shrimp), of European waters


palaemoid

Any shrimp of the superfamily Palaemonoidea


solenocerid

Any marine decapod of the family Solenoceridae


candonine

Any ostracod of the subfamily Candoninae


cypridoid

Any ostracod of the superfamily Cypridoidea


cytheroidean

Any ostracod of the superfamily Cytheroidea


akentrogonid

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Akentrogonida</i>

Any parasitic barnacle of the order Akentrogonida


lysiosquilloid

Members of the family share with lysiosquilloids the subquadrate, distally ribbed propodi of maxillipeds 3-4, but differ in bearing a distinct median carina on the telson.

2002, A.. Wells, W. W. K. Houston, Crustacea: Malacostraca : Phyllocardia, Hoplocardia, Eucarida:

The lysiosquilloid Pullosquilla litoralis was previously reported to inhabit only tropical waters less than 2 m deep […]

2003, The Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 206, number 1, page 378:

Ahyong (1997) hypothesized that the long ischium of lysiosquilloid stomatopods increased the reach of their raptorial appendages, implying that this allowed these stomatopods a greater striking distance […]

2012, Les Watling, Martin Thiel, Functional Morphology and Diversity, page 278:

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the superfamily Lysiosquilloidea


sea woodlouse

Synonym of sea slater (“littoral woodlouse”)


kentrogonid

Any parasitic barnacle of the order Kentrogonida


spinicaudatan

Any of the order Spinicaudata of clam shrimps.


giant barnacle

A species of large barnacle Austromegabalanus psittacus and its edible flesh, native to Peru and Chile


Chilean king crab

en-noun

Chilean king crab (plural Chilean king crabs)


southern king crab

southern king crab (plural southern king crabs)

A large species of crab Lithodes santolla and its edible flesh, native to southern South America.


parasquilloid

Squilloids, eurysquilloids, parasquilloids and lysiosquilloids burrow in soft, level substrates.

2004, Gary C. B. Poore, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia:

In other groups, the midband ommatidial facets are hexagonal, but vary in number from two or six (usually six) in lysiosquilloids and eurysquilloids, always two in squilloids, and two or three (usually two) in parasquilloids; […]

2013, Carel von Vaupel Klein, Mireille Charmantier-Daures, Treatise on Zoology:

(zoology) A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Parasquilloidea.


eurysquilloid

(zoology) A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Eurysquilloidea


gonodactyloid

The posterolateral margins are usually broadly rounded, but in Harpiosquillidae Manning, 1980, the posterolateral margins are deeply excavate, and in several gonodactyloids, the posterolateral margin is squared.

2000, Australian Journal of Zoology, volume 48, page 610:

It is possible that in the coral-dwelling gonodactyloids the accumulation of muscle tension and sudden release of the pendulum-like 'hammer' would impose too much stress on the muscles and skeleton of the appendage if animals were larger […]

2017, Robert H. Gore, Crustacean Biogeography:

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the superfamily Gonodactyloidea


bathysquilloid

Clipping of translingual Bathysquilloidea

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Among the synapomorphies of the bathysquilloids is the elaborate ornamentation of the female gonopore, described in detail by Bruce (1988). This gonopore ornamentation is unique to the bathysquilloids, […]

2000, Australian Journal of Zoology, volume 48, numbers 4-6, page 625:

The tergite of the thoracic somites is smooth in most stomatopods, but is variously carinate in squilloids, bathysquilloids, parasquilloids and eurysquilloids.

(zoology) A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Bathysquilloidea.


talitroidean

Any amphipod of the superfamily Talitroidea


stenopodidean

Any decapod crustacean of the infraorder Stenopodidea (boxer shrimp)


butterfly crab

The nickname "butterfly crab" refers to the crab's butterfly-shaped carapace.

Hart, Josephine F. L. (1965 May 9) “Life History and Larval Development of Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt (Decapoda, Anomura) from British Columbia”, in Crustaceana, volume 8, number 3, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 255–276: “The turtle or butterfly crab, Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt, 1849, is a crustacean of [...] the family Lithodidae.”

Fretwell, Kelly, Starzomski, Brian (2015) “Butterfly crab • Cryptolithodes typicus”, in Biodiversity of the Central Coast, archived from the original on 2018-04-06: “The butterfly crab's range extends from northern Alaska to southern California.”

A species of shallow-water king crab (Cryptolithodes typicus) native to coastal regions of the northeastern Pacific Ocean


she-crab

For quotations using this term, see Citations:she-crab.

A female Chesapeake Bay blue crab, especially an immature one (as contrasted with a sook).


chionelasmatid

Any barnacle of the family Chionelasmatidae


Shanghai hairy crab

en-noun

Shanghai hairy crab (plural Shanghai hairy crabs)

Chinese mitten crab
Chinese mitten crab#English


Chinese mitten crab

Chinese mitten crab (plural Chinese mitten crabs)

Eriocheir sinensis, a medium-sized burrowing crab with furry claws, native to parts of Asia.


Christmas Island red crab

Christmas Island red crab (plural Christmas Island red crabs)

Gecarcoidea natalis, a land crab endemic to Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean.


Balmain bug

Ibacus peronii, a species of slipper lobster.


opossum shrimp

opossum shrimp (countable and uncountable, plural opossum shrimps)


chiltoniid

Any amphipod crustacean of the family Chiltoniidae


limnoria

A member of the genus Limnoria of shipworms.


cleaner shrimp

cleaner shrimp (plural cleaner shrimps or cleaner shrimp)

cleaner shrimps (plural)
cleaner shrimp (plural)

(zoology) Any of a number of swimming decapod crustaceans that clean other organisms of parasites.


land shrimp

land shrimp (usually uncountable, plural land shrimps)


glass shrimp

Any of various shrimp in family Palaemonidae.


fan lobster

Any slipper lobster of the subfamily Ibacinae, especially genera Evibacus or Ibacus.


pram bug

The double pairs of compound eyes of the small but sinister Pram bug, which allow it to scan for prey and danger at the same time.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 107:


brown box crab

Lopholithodes foraminatus, a king crab that lives from Prince William Sound, Alaska to San Diego, California.


shamefaced crab

shamefaced crab (plural shamefaced crabs)

From the crab's habit of covering its face with its chelae, as if hiding the face in shame.


blue crab

Ellipsis of blue king crab. (Paralithodes platypus)


sun anemone shrimp

sun anemone shrimp (plural sun anemone shrimp)

Periclimenes rathbunae, a species of shrimp found in the Gulf of Mexico.


O'Shea's vent barnacle

O'Shea's vent barnacle (plural O'Shea's vent barnacles)

Vulcanolepas osheai, a species of barnacle found around hydrothermal vents and active underwater volcanoes.


red king crab

A crab of the Paralithodes camtschaticus species


brown king crab

brown king crab (plural brown king crabs)

golden king crab
golden king crab#English

Synonym of golden king crab (Lithodes aequispinus)


golden king crab

golden king crab (plural golden king crabs)

A crab of the Lithodes aequispinus species


blue king crab

Any crab of the species Paralithodes platypus


golden crab

Ellipsis of golden king crab. (Lithodes aequispinus)


yabby pump

→ Japanese: ヤビーポンプ

In eastern Australia, Callianassa can be obtained in quantities with relative ease by using a local invention (the "yabby pump") which will be described. [...] The sale of yabby pumps and live yabbies for bait is an important aspect of amateur angling in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.

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, pages 260–261:

The specimens were collected with a yabby pump in Carenero lagoon, South coast of La Tortuga Island (10º53’N 65º14’W), Venezuela.

2005, I. Hernández-Ávila, C. Lira, G. Hernández, J. Bolaños, “Upogebia vasquezi Ngoc-Ho, 1989 (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae): First Record for Venezuela”, in Boletín del Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela, Universidad de Oriente, volume 44, number 2, page 119:

Penny placed the yabby pump on top of a hole in the sandflat and pulled back on the handle, sucking up mud and life.

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

The gobies Eutaeniichthys gilli and Gymnogobius scrobiculatus were collected from burrows of the mud shrimp Upogebia yokoyai at low tide by digging and using a yabby pump from April 2007 to September 2008 at Susaki Bay, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.

2014, Henmi Y., Iwata Y., Itani G., “ヒモハゼとクボハゼによる干潮時のヨコヤアナジャコの巣穴利用 [Associations of the gobies Eutaeniichthys gilli and Gymnogobius scrobiculatus with burrows of the mud shrimp Upogebia yokoyai at low tide]”, in 日本ベントス学会誌 [Japanese Journal of Benthology], volume 69, page 69:

(Australia, biology) A large hand-operated syringe-like suction pump, made of metal tubing with a rubber plunger, used to harvest ghost shrimp (prototypically the marine yabby) and other burrowing crustaceans from intertidal environments.


goose barnacle

gooseneck barnacle
gooseneck barnacle#English

Synonym of gooseneck barnacle (“Pollicipes pollicipes and related crustaceans”)


thumb splitter

Referring to the powerful claw capable of inflicting deep wounds when handled.


peacock mantis shrimp

peacock mantis shrimp (plural peacock mantis shrimps)

The title of fastest punch in the animal kingdom firmly belongs to the peacock mantis shrimp, whose club-like appendages reach the speed of a .22-caliber slug, shatter clamshells with ease and can slice human fingers to the bone.

2014 April 26, Meeri Kim, “Peacock mantis shrimp’s swift, deadly punch inspires superstrong composite materials”, in The Washington Post:

A mantis shrimp of species Odontodactylus scyllarus, with keen eyesight, that smashes shells and exoskeletons of its prey and is capable of breaking through glass aquarium tanks.


mole crab

Synonym of sand crab (“crab of the Hippoidea superfamily”)


kazacharthran

During the spring, when the rivers are in full flow, there is plenty of food to go around, but when things get tighter, the kazacharthrans face competition for food from not only swimming arthropods, but also static colonies.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 163:

An extinct crustacean of the order Kazacharthra.


prawn killer

The slipper lobster Ibacus alticrenatus.


lernean

Crustacea.—Embryos are often dissimilar from the adult form. The most conspicuous of these is the larva (Zoe) of the Decapoda, and the active zoeform young of Cirripedia (barnacles) and Lernæacea (lerneans).

1874, Harrison Allen, Outlines of Comparative Anatomy and Medical Zoology, page 131:

A member of the family (Lernaeidae) of parasitic crustaceans found attached to fishes and other marine animals.


Halloween crab

For its black and orange coloration, traditional colors of Halloween.


shield shrimp

A member of the Notostraca; a tadpole shrimp.


devil's fingers

devil's fingers pl (normally plural, singular devil's finger)

I removed the underside of the crab called its apron. I opened it up and removed the gills or “devil’s fingers.” And I removed its eyes and mouth.

1992 June 21, Rob Kasper, “To cut, or not to cut, the mustard”, in The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, page 1G:

Next, remove the apron from the underside of the crab. Finally, Curtis says, you’ll need to lift up each side of the shell and remove the gills or the “devil’s fingers.”

2001 June 6, Patricia Talorico, “Just forget that it’s a whole crab; take a bite and enjoy that flavor”, in The News Journal, Wilmington, Delaware, page D1:

Once the shell is off, the crab’s gills or lungs, variously called “devil’s fingers” or “dead men” are exposed. These are gray-white, feathery-looking parts that are inedible and must be scraped off and thrown away.

2007 August 3, John Geiser, “Take rusties over jimmies when hunting for good-eatin’ crabs”, in Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, New Jersey:

(informal, US) The gills of various species of crabs.


Asian blue crab

Asian blue crab (plural Asian blue crabs)

Synonym of horse crab (Portunus trituberculatus)


horse crab

Any of species Portunus trituberculatus of crabs.


decorator crab

A crab of certain species within the superfamily Majoidea that decorate their bodies with materials from the environment to hide from, or ward off, predators.

Libinia emarginata

portly spider crab, nine-spined spider crab


Atlantic ghost crab

Atlantic ghost crab (plural Atlantic ghost crabs)

The genus Ocypode was erected by Fabricius (1798) for two of his own species (1793), our Atlantic ghost crab and the racing crab of the coasts of India and Malaya.

1946, Lorus J. Milne, Margery J. Milne, “Notes on the Behavior of the Ghost Crab”, in The American Naturalist, volume 80, number 792, Salem, USA: Essex Institute, →DOI, page 363:

The Atlantic ghost crab is one of the many resident animals likely to greet the Cape Lookout National Seashore beachcomber.

1994, Defenders, volume 69, Washington, DC: Defenders of Wildlife, page 38, column 2:

But although the Atlantic ghost crab shown in this picture is near the sea, the adult animals are terrestrial, living in burrows that they dig in the sand.

2018 September 9, Martin Rowland, Geremis Luces, “The Atlantic ghost crab”, in Biological Sciences Review, volume 31, number 1, Banbury: Hodder Education, page 7:

Burrowing crab of the species Ocypode quadrata


water louse

A species of crustacean, Asellus aquaticus


shellback crab

A crab of the genus Hypoconcha, which takes up residence in abandoned clamshells.


spanner crab

Ranina ranina, a large-headed coastal crab of the Indian and West Pacific Oceans, prized for its meat.


hog-beetle

(dated, obsolete) A weevil of the family Curculionidae.


tuna crab

Grimothea planipes, a squat lobster of the Pacific coast of the Americas.


giant isopod

Compound of giant + isopod, possibly influenced by the name of the type species translingual Bathynomus giganteus (literally “giant Bathynomus”).

der

Any of several very large marine isopods of the genus Bathynomus, known for being the largest of all known isopods.


porcelain crab

Any of the decapod crustaceans of the family Porcellanidae, superficially resembling true crabs.


paddyfields crab

en-noun

paddyfields crab (plural paddyfields crabs)

Parathelphusa convexa, a species of brown river-dwelling crab native to Java.


Japanese spiny lobster

Japanese spiny lobster (plural Japanese spiny lobsters)

From Japanese + spiny lobster (“Palinuridae sp.”). Likely a partial calque of translingual Panulirus japonicus.

pclq

Panulirus japonicus, a species of spiny lobster sometimes used in Japanese cuisine.


glyptograpsid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Glyptograpsidae.


giant mud crab

Scylla serrata
Scylla serrata#Translingual


blepharipodid

(zoology) Any sand crab in the family Blepharipodidae