butterfly crab
butterfly crab noun: a species of shallow-water king crab (Cryptolithodes typicus) native to coastal regions of the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
Noun
butterfly crab (plural butterfly crabs)
- A species of shallow-water king crab (Cryptolithodes typicus) native to coastal regions of the northeastern Pacific Ocean
- Hart, Josephine F. L. (May 1965), “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...
- Fretwell, Kelly; Starzomski, Brian (2015), “Butterfly crab • Cryptolithodes typicus”, in Biodiversity of the Central Coast, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2018: “The butterfly crab's range extends from northern Alaska to southern California.”
Forms of butterfly crab
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Origin of butterfly crab
The nickname "butterfly crab" refers to the crab's butterfly-shaped carapace.
Questions about butterfly crab
- What does butterfly crab mean?
- Butterfly crab means a species of shallow-water king crab (Cryptolithodes typicus) native to coastal regions of the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
- What part of speech is butterfly crab?
- Butterfly crab is a noun.
- What is the plural of butterfly crab?
- The plural of butterfly crab is butterfly crabs.
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