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Encyclopedia > Giant crab

A Giant crab is a type of crustacean. Classes & Subclasses Branchiopoda Phyllopoda Sarsostraca Remipedia Cephalocarida Maxillopoda Thecostraca Tantulocarida Branchiura Pentastomida Mystacocarida Copepoda Ostracoda Myodocopa Podocopa Malacostraca Phyllocarida Hoplocarida Eumalacostraca The crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods (55,000 species), usually treated as a subphylum [1]. They include various familiar animals, such as lobsters, crabs, shrimp and...


Giant crab may refer to:

  • Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi), the largest crab species alive
  • Tasmanian giant crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas), another large crab species
  • Also refers to a Sony fanboy from GameSpot.com's System Wars, which was a name given after an incident at the Sony E3 conference, where the game Genji 2 which is coming out for Sony's next generation console, the Play Station 3, was said to be based on Japanese history, even though the battle has a giant enemy crab that can be flipped over allowing the player to "attack its weak spot for massive damage."
Binomial name Macrocheira kaempferi Temminck, 1836 The Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) is the largest crab alive; fully grown it can reach a leg span of almost 4 m (13 feet), a body size of up to 37 cm (15 inches) and a weight of up to 20 kg (44... Binomial name Pseudocarcinus gigas Lamarck, 1818 The Tasmanian giant crab, sometimes known as the giant deepwater crab, giant southern crab and queen crab, is a species of crab that occurs in the southern waters of Australia on the edge of the continental shelf at a depth of 30-820 m... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the leading manufacturers of video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... E³ logo Presented by the Entertainment Software Association, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known and composed as E3 (besides the organiser’s usage of E³, the superscript version is rarely used), is the worlds largest annual trade show for the computer and video games industry. ...

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Urban IPM: Spiders: Giant Crab Spiders (310 words)
Description: Crab spiders (families Selenopidae, Sparassidae, and Thomisidae) are distinctly "crablike" in both morphology and behavior.
Envenomation: Giant crab spiders are not dangerously venomous and these spiders are not at all aggressive toward humans.
Crab spider bites are not reported to be particularly painful.
crab: Definition, Synonyms and Much More from Answers.com (2769 words)
The horseshoe crab, which also is called by the name king crab, is not a crustacean, and the hermit crab, although a crustacean, is not a true crab.
Crabs are found in all of the world's oceans; there are also many freshwater and terrestrial crabs, particularly in tropical regions.
In females, these are on the third pereiopod, or nearby on the sternum in higher crabs; in males, the gonopores are at the base of the fifth pereiopods or, in higher crabs, on the sternum nearby.
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