Talk:Crab

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I can only repeat Stefan's comments on this talk page: "I can not find anything about what crabs eat, how long do they live, there is a passing remark to them carrying eggs in reference to different body shapes, but no description of reproduction, the headings seem to be randomly named and often talk about many other things, I'm expecting headings like Physical characteristics, senses, behaviour".

Needs expanding and reorganising. IronChris | (talk) 04:48, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

The article has re-organised extensively and expanded slightly since Stefan's comments were posted. There is now a diet section, and an anatomy section (so covering "what crabs eat" and "physical characteristics" suggested above). Lifespan, behaviour and other similar topics are very variable within the group, making it difficult to write a meaningful text. --Stemonitis 15:49, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

do crabs claws go back?


How about links to the various crab species?

Amen to whoever wrote that. This article needs links to tie together to some of the zillion types of crabs in various Wikipedia articles, including all of them in Category:Crabs, including grouping them in ways we don't get in the bald category listings. Gene Nygaard 05:34, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Picture of baby crab

I added a picture of a (what I assume is a) baby crap Image:Baby crab.jpg. It wqas removed by annon user 193.190.112.194 who said that it has no encoycopedic value[1]. While I admit it is not of overwelming scientific value, would it not be a good idea to have a picture of a baby crap to show the development of crabs?--JK the unwise 14:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

As no one has replied I'm going to re-add the picture.--JK the unwise 13:08, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

what are cras adaptive features?

I mean crabs

[edit] Sexual dismorphism

Sometime I've read in a magazine (an old "super interessante") that the portuguese like to fish male crabs to remove their larger claw and then they free the crab so it's claw will grow again, and when the claw is growing the other crabs think he is a she-crab instead and the poor mutilated crab doesn't get to mate with shecrabs, is this true? 201.23.64.2 23:09, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA Concern: Embedded List guideline

A GA reviewer would have trouble passing this article, because it fails criterion 1(c). Please review the list guidelines. -Fsotrain09 00:19, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Point taken — list moved to taxobox. --Stemonitis 08:06, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for acting so promptly, and replying. I have cleaned up the list some, and I believe it would now pass that criterion. -Fsotrain09 17:13, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm unsure about the value of removing red links, but if you think it will help, then so be it. There was a bit of a mistake in the taxobox, which I have now sorted out. --Stemonitis 17:19, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
It's not the existence of redlinks, its that the list consisted almost entirely of them. I do think dewikification was warranted here. I apologize for the error I made. --Fsotrain09 18:14, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA coments

I will not fail this article, just give some of my comments, not really sure how strict to be so I let someone with more experience in assessing GA do it. I think it fails requirement 3) I.e. coverage, Im not sure what is know about crabs, but I can not find anything about what crabs eat, how long do they live, there is a passing remark to them carrying eggs in reference to different body shapes, but no description of reproduction, the heading seams to be randomly named and often talk about many other things, I'm expecting heading like Physical characteristics, senses, behaviour. Stefan 15:11, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid I agree: I'm a biology student, and still find this article relatively disorganised and hard to read therefore. Needs substantial expansion and reorginisation. That said, almost all of what is there is of quite high quality, and will, if rearranged a bit and the missing information added in, be a fine part of a featured article Adam Cuerden talk 12:31, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] brains

do a crab have a brain an a heart??

[edit] do crabs eat peeople

Do crabs eat people

[edit] Walking sideways

i came on here to find out some questions my little brother asked about why do they walk sideways, and can they walk forwards? there isn't any mention of that at all. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.19.3.231 (talk • contribs).

There used to be a short discussion of it, but I think it was removed because of a lack of references. Most crabs walk sideways most of the time, because it's easier given the way the joints in their legs bend. However, plenty of crabs are perfectly able to walk in any direction they please. The quote at Grapsus grapsus illustrates the agility that many crabs possess. --Stemonitis 19:25, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Identification

Who am I?
Who am I?

I took this photo at Croajingolong National Park on the east coast of Australia. Someone told me it was a "soldier crab". Can anyone confirm or be more specific? Stevage 04:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Please help to identify this crab

This crab?
This crab?

I bought this crab at the supermarket and didn't want to eat it lol, can anyone tell me what's the name of this breed ? (in the green picture) Thanks a lot ! --AlexMilkis 15:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

It's a freshwater crayfish, not a crab. It's difficult to identify it further without knowing where it's from. --Stemonitis 16:46, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Species should be listed

As Wikipedia will not let me edit the "Crab" page, I might as well just put this here-

in 2005, a new crab species was discovered that was nicknamed the "Yeti Crab". Heres some random information on it- http://www.mbari.org/news/homepage/2006/yeti-crab.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.188.215.93 (talk • contribs).

See Kiwa hirsuta. Also note that it is not actually a crab. --Stemonitis 13:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
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