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.


nipper

(Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.

[…] ready backbiters, sore nippers, and spiteful reporters privily of good men.

a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:

(archaic) A European crab (Polybius henslowii).


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).


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.


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.

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.


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

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)


rock lobster

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


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.


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 20, 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


scampi

scampi (countable and uncountable, plural scampis or scampi)

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

Nephrops norvegicus
Nephrops norvegicus#Translingual


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.


royal red prawn

royal red prawn (plural royal red prawns)

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


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.


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


mud crab

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


green crab

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


stone crab

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


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.


spiny lobster

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


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).


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.


langoustine

A small edible European orange-pink lobster, Nephrops norvegicus


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:


sand crab

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

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.


spinous spider crab

spinous spider crab (plural spinous spider crabs)

European spider crab
European spider crab


spiny spider crab

spiny spider crab (plural spiny 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.


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.


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.


river crab

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


brachyuran

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


macruran

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


great northern prawn

great northern prawn (plural great northern prawns)

Pandalus borealis
Pandalus borealis#Translingual

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


deepwater prawn

deepwater prawn (plural deepwater prawns)


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.


northern shrimp

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

northern shrimp (plural)
northern shrimps (plural)


sea spider

Any arthropod in the taxonomic class Pycnogonida.


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.


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.


gecarcinian

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


grapsoid

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.


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.


glass-crab

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


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


aeglid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Aeglidae.


albuneid

(zoology) Any member of the family Albuneidae.


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.


alpheid

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


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.


axiid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Axiidae.


belliid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Belliidae.


bythograeid

(zoology) Any member of the family Bythograeidae.


calappid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Calappidae.


callianassid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Callianassidae.


carcinid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Carcinidae.


carcineretid

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


cancrid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Cancridae.


carpiliid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Carpiliidae.


catoptrid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Catoptridae.


chirostylid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Chirostylidae.


coleiid

(zoology) Any extinct crustacean in the family Coleiidae.


crangonid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Crangonidae.


corystid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Corystidae.


cryptochirid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Cryptochiridae.


coenobitid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Coenobitidae.


cambarid

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


dairid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Dairidae.


diogenid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Diogenidae.


dorippid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Dorippidae.


dromiid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Dromiidae.


enoplometopid

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


erymid

(zoology) Any extinct crustacean in the family Erymidae.


eryonid

(zoology) Any extinct crustacean in the family Eryonidae.


eriphiid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Eriphiidae.


etyid

(zoology) Any extinct crab in the family Etyidae.


galatheid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Galatheidae.


gecarcinid

(zoology) Any land crab of the family Gecarcinidae


geryonid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Geryonidae.


glypheid

(zoology) Any lobsterlike crustacean in the family Glypheidae.


gecarcinucid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Gecarcinucidae.


gnathophyllid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Gnathophyllidae.


goneplacid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Goneplacidae.


grapsid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Grapsidae.


hexapodid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Hexapodidae.


hippolytid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Hippolytidae.


homolid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Homolidae.


homolodromiid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Homolodromiidae.


homarid

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


hippid

(zoology) Any sand crab in the family Hippidae.


inachid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Inachidae.


hymenosomatid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Hymenosomatidae.


latreilliid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Latreilliidae.


leucosiid

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


lomid

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


luciferid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Luciferidae.


lithodid

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


majid

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


matutid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Matutidae.


mecochirid

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


macrophthalmid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Macrophthalmidae.


menippid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Menippidae.


mictyrid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Mictyridae.


munidid

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


nephropid

(zoology) Any member of the Nephropidae.


ocypodid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Ocypodidae.


nephropsid

(zoology) Any lobster in the family Nephropsidae.


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.


pandalid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Pandalidae.


panopeid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Panopeidae.


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.


parapagurid

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


parathelphusid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Parathelphusidae.


parthenopid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Parthenopidae.


pasiphaeid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Pasiphaeidae.


parastacid

(zoology) Any crayfish in the family Parastacidae.


pilumnid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Pilumnidae.


plagusiid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Plagusiidae.


pinnotherid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Pinnotheridae.


polychelid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Polychelidae.


porcellanid

(zoology) Any crablike crustacean in the Porcellanidaes.


potamonid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Potamonidae.


potamid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Potamidae.


potamonautid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Potamonautidae.


pseudothelphusid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Pseudothelphusidae.


procaridid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Procarididae.


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.


varunid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Varunidae.


sergestid

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


sesarmid

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


sicyoniid

(zoology) Any prawn in the family Sicyoniidae.


stenopodid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Stenopodidae.


stylodactylid

(zoology) Any member of the family Stylodactylidae.


synaxid

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


thalassinid

(zoology) Any mud lobster in the family Thalassina.


trichodactylid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Trichodactylidae.


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.


European lobster

en-noun

European lobster (plural European lobsters)

Homarus gammarus
Homarus gammarus#Translingual


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:


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:


alpheid shrimp

alpheid shrimp (plural alpheid shrimps or alpheid shrimp)

alpheid shrimps (plural)
alpheid 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.


snapping shrimp

snapping shrimp (plural snapping shrimps or snapping shrimp)

snapping shrimps (plural)
snapping shrimp (plural)


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.


alvinocarid

Any deep-sea shrimp of the genus Alvinocaris


bait bug

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


sandprawn

Kraussillichirus kraussi, a kind of shrimp.


mudprawn

Upogebia africana, a shrimp endemic to South Africa.


carcinization

term-label

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

/ˌkɑːsɪnɪˈzeɪʃn̩/

From Ancient Greek καρκῐ́νος (karkínos, “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.

der

[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


strawberry crab

en-noun

strawberry crab (plural strawberry crabs)

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


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.


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.


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.


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.


black finger crab

black finger crab (plural black finger crabs)


reef crab

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


dead man's fingers

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


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.


snow crab

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


Norway lobster

A small European lobster of the species Nephrops norvegicus.


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


ghost nipper

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


ghost shrimp

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.


pontoniine

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

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 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.


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


anchistioidid

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

Any shrimp of the family Anchistioididae.


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


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


galatheoid

Any decapod crustacean of the superfamily Galatheoidea


munidopsid

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


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.


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.


thalassinidean

A decapod crustacean of the former infraorder Thalassinidea


eryonoid

Any extinct decapod crustacean of the family Eryonidae


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.


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:


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.


Maine lobster

Homarus americanus
Homarus americanus#Translingual

The American lobster, Homarus americanus.


American lobster

American lobster (plural American lobsters)

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


mud lobster

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


sand shrimp

Crangon septemspinosa, of the Atlantic coast of North America


palaemoid

Any shrimp of the superfamily Palaemonoidea


solenocerid

Any marine decapod of the family Solenoceridae


Chilean king crab

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.


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 20) “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).


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.


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.


Shanghai hairy crab

Shanghai hairy crab (plural Shanghai hairy crabs)

Chinese mitten crab
Chinese mitten crab#English


Balmain bug

Ibacus peronii, a species of slipper lobster.


fan lobster

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


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.


blue king crab

Any crab of the species Paralithodes platypus


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 crab

Ellipsis of golden king crab. (Lithodes aequispinus)


golden king crab

golden king crab (plural golden king crabs)

A crab of the Lithodes aequispinus species


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.


mole crab

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


Halloween crab

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


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.


horse crab

Any of species Portunus trituberculatus of crabs.


Asian blue crab

Asian blue crab (plural Asian blue crabs)

Synonym of horse crab (Portunus trituberculatus)


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 20, 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


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.


tuna crab

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


porcelain crab

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


paddyfields crab

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