The only land animals known to exist on Clipperton Island are bright-orange crabs ( which are poisonous to consume ), birds, lizards and rats, the last of which seem to have arrived from recently wrecked ships.

Pike, perch, river crabs, snails, poultry from Bresse, Charolais beef or game, redcurrants, blackcurrants, honey cake, Chaource and Epoisses cheese are all specialties of the local cuisine of both Burgundy and Franche-Comté.

A great example of this symbiosis are the mangroves in the gulf, which require tidal flow and a combination of fresh and salt water for growth, and act as nurseries for many crabs, small fish, and insects ; these fish and insects are the source of food for many of the marine birds that feed on them.

Generally speaking, many parts of the Upper South specialize more in pork, sorghum, and whiskey, while the low country coastal areas are known for seafood ( shrimp and crabs ), rice, and grits.

Freshwater fish, crustaceans, and mollusks — such as prawns, squids, shrimps, crabs, clams, mussels — are widely used.

Examples of metabiosis are hermit crabs using gastropod shells to protect their bodies and spiders building their webs on plants.

The gills of some species such as hermit crabs have adapted to allow respiration on land provided they are kept moist.

Sipunculids are all marine and are relatively common, and live in shallow waters, either in burrows or in discarded shells like hermit crabs do.

Despite their low nutrition value and the abundance of indigestible calcite, echinoderms are the prey of many organisms, such as crabs, sharks, sea birds and larger starfish.

The echinoderms are also the staple diet of many organisms, most notably the otter ; conversely, many sea cucumbers provide a habitat for parasites, including crabs, worms and snails.

Adults are planktonic and the larvae parasitise decapod crustaceans, especially crabs.

The majority of crustaceans are aquatic, living in either marine or freshwater environments, but a few groups have adapted to life on land, such as terrestrial crabs, terrestrial hermit crabs, and woodlice.

While many groups of burrowing animals ( pink fairy armadillos, tuco-tucos, mole rats, mole crickets and mole crabs ) have developed close physical similarities with moles due to convergent evolution, two of these are so similar to true moles, they are commonly called and thought of as " moles " in common English, although they are completely unrelated to true moles or to each other.

The surviving marine species include the four species of xiphosurans ( horseshoe crabs ), and possibly the 1, 300 species of pycnogonids ( sea spiders ), if the latter are chelicerates.

The abdominal appendages of modern chelicerates are missing or heavily modified – for example in spiders the remaining appendages form spinnerets that extrude silk, while those of horseshoe crabs ( Xiphosura ) form gills.

The larvae are prey to comb jellies, jellyfish, chaetognaths, fish and other crustaceans ( such as mantis shrimp and crabs ), and only a tiny proportion survive.

In addition a few species of land crabs are eaten, for example Cardisoma guanhumi in the Caribbean.

Some crustaceans commonly eaten are shrimp, prawn, lobster, crayfish, and crabs.

Individual senators, with an eye to the voters back home, occasionally introduced smelts from Michigan, soft-shell crabs from Maryland, oysters from Washington, grapefruit from Florida.

Small animals such as crabs, snails frogs and small lizards and snakes may supplement the diet, with such protein-rich food often being broken down and fed to the young.

The result is that Clipperton is now virtually a sandy desert, with only 674 remaining palms counted by C. Jost during the " Passion 2001 " French mission, and five islets in the lagoon with grass that these terrestrial crabs cannot reach.

Alice soon finds herself struggling to handle the oars of a small rowboat, where the Sheep annoys her with ( seemingly ) nonsensical shouting about " crabs " and " feathers ".

The traditional version is made with three fish: scorpionfish, sea robin, and European conger, plus an assortment of other fish and shellfish, such as John Dory, monkfish, sea urchins, crabs and sea spiders included for flavor.

The Chesapeake Bay and Maryland region has generally been associated more with crabs, but in recent years the area has been trying to reduce its catch of blue crabs, as wild populations have been depleted.

The bay is known for its beauty but in recent years it has been noted that the bay is becoming " emptier ", with fewer crabs, oysters, and watermen.

Many other animals with similar names – such as hermit crabs, king crabs, porcelain crabs, horseshoe crabs and crab lice – are not true crabs.

In some hemocyanins of horseshoe crabs and some other species of arthropods, cooperative binding is observed, with Hill coefficients of 1. 6-3. 0.

On November 12, 1970, a dead sperm whale that had washed up on the beach was destroyed with dynamite, the theory being that scavengers such as seagulls and crabs would consume the smaller pieces.

Zoidberg's race, the Decapodians — from the sandy, beach-like planet Decapod 10 — are crustaceans, generally lobster-like in appearance — though they have been called squids, crabs or crawdads — with lobster-like claws, mouth tentacles, a hard exoskeleton, a fleshy, boneless interior, a fin that appears atop their heads during mating season or extreme anger, an ink pouch, two stomachs ( one saltwater and one freshwater ), three hearts, ( originally four ), gonopores, a gland that stinks when Decapodians are bored and a complex system of internal organs, " most of which are either redundant or unnecessary.

The area between the islands and the coast is unique in the world: the tide leaves a broad stretch of mudflat with creeks that attract an extraordinary number of species, worms and crabs as well as birds or seals.

The town had grown up as a fishing station over the centuries and became a year-round fishery, with crabs and lobsters in the summer, drifting for longshore herring in the autumn and long-lining, primarily for cod, in the winter, when weather permitted.

Another favourite Vogon pastime is to import millions of beautiful jewel-backed scuttling crabs from their native planet, cut down giant trees of breathtaking beauty, and spend a happy drunken night smashing the crabs to bits with iron mallets and cooking the crab meat by burning the trees.

In the past there has been conflict with commercial shellfish farmers, but studies have found that the impact of oystercatchers is much smaller than that of shore crabs.

Locals with experience in the forests claim that Orang Pendek seeks out ginger roots, a plant known locally as " pahur " or " lolo ", young shoots, insects in rotting logs, and river crabs.

Because of the protections provided the species on this atoll, and the isolation of the east rim of the atoll, the species is recorded in greater densities there than anywhere else in its range ( 339 crabs / ha ).

Primarily known for two things: Catching Maryland Chesapeake blue crabs the old fashioned way, i. e. by line / chicken neck / weight / net and for its of scenic water vista related trail.

* Soft plastic baits / lures is a general category of lures that are made of plastic or rubber, and are designed to resemble fish, crabs, squid, worms, lizards, frogs, leeches and other creatures.

:" There, about a quarter league is Fajã, called " Big " to its name Great / Grande Fajã which offers bread and woad on elevated land, with a few berths for Caravels, it produces at least 50 moios unit of solid measure of bread and woad, and where, also, there is shellfish and fish of all kinds, and along its cape a beach, half a league in size, where there is always a strong ocean current ; and from there, another half a league, the cliffs are covered with much urzela lichen, and large rocks, that spawn an infinity of seafood and large crabs, and from here, there is an explosion of rocks that fall to the sea, like a guns spray, where we find limpets and cowrie shells ; and in front of this point, which forms a bay, where many type of ships anchor, including Carracks from India.

In preparation, live crabs are crushed and metacercariae may contaminate the fingers / utensils of the person preparing the meal.

For example, in a Chinese study eating " drunken crabs " was shown to be particularly risky because the infection rate was 100 % when crabs are immersed in wine for 3 – 5 minutes and fed to cats / dog.

The remaining Decapoda were placed in the Reptantia, and consisted of crabs, lobsters and other large animals that move chiefly by walking along the bottom.

Other researchers have challenged this, asserting that Lithodidae ( king crabs ) should be placed with Hapalogastridae in a separate superfamily Lithodoidea.

Live crabs are cooked simply by dropping them into boiling salt water, waiting for a boil to return, and then allowing it to continue for 15 minutes, after which time the crabs are removed and placed into cold water to cool, and then cleaned.

Although formerly classified among the hermit crabs in the superfamily Paguroidea, king crabs are now placed in a separate superfamily, Lithodoidea.

In early classifications, squat lobsters were placed together in the superfamily Galatheoidea alongside the porcelain crabs of the family Porcellanidae.

The crabs are caught using crab pots ( similar to lobster pots ) which are placed offshore and baited.