spider crab in English

noun
1
a crab with long thin legs and a compact pear-shaped body, which is camouflaged in some kinds by attached sponges and seaweed.
Another sea creature which needs friends to survive is the small spider crab which finds camouflage in the canopy of living sponges.

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1. The Japanese Spider Crab - The World's Biggest Arthropod!

2. 7 The Japanese Spider Crab is the World's Largest Crustacean and Arthropod.

3. The biggest living Arthropod is the Japanese Spider Crab, and the heaviest is the American Lobster – these are both Crustaceans

4. Hyas, a genus of spider crabs, including the great spider crab (Hyas araneus), found in the Atlantic and the North Sea.

5. XVIII.—On the chylaqueous fluid in the Actinoida: XX.—Characters and descriptions of some new British Sea-Anemones: XX.—On Edwardsia carnea, a new British zoophyte: XX.—On the sloughing of the Spider-Crab (Maia Squinado) XXIV.—On keeping marine animals and plants alive in unchanged sea-water: XXIX.—On Sarcodictyon catenata (Forbes)