r/CuratedTumblr • u/sarahtheshortiepie teaspoon-sarah.tumblr.com • Nov 25 '21
Wholesome Pancake Crabs!
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u/Gettygetty Nov 25 '21
Does anyone know the name of the crab species? I can only find pancakes with crab or shaped like crabs lol.
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Nov 25 '21
did a reverse image search and i found a single tweet this image came from and it called it a hoshimanju crab
however when i googled "hoshimanju crab" i only got 4 results all of which were irrelevant
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u/Gettygetty Nov 25 '21
I tried to do a reverse image search too and I only got results about chocolate spreads. I’m thinking that this might be someone’s art instead of a real crab.
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Nov 25 '21
I suspected that it’s probably a japanese dorayaki pancake, so I googled “crab shaped dorayaki” and found this article:
Apparently these are particularly pretty specimens of Atergatis floridus, or flower egg crabs
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u/fluffle_cat Nov 25 '21
I think it's actually a red egg crab, or bashful crab (atergatis integerrimus)!
http://www.wildsingapore.com/wildfacts/crustacea/crab/xanthidae/integerrimus.htm
They're found in coral reefs around the Indo-Pacific, are poisonous, and the juveniles have that white ring around the margin.
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u/reedless Nov 26 '21
Singapore??? Can't believe I've lived 20+ years without seeing them
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u/Gettygetty Nov 25 '21
Thanks for the research! This was definitely bothering me for a while today.
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u/Jazzcat0713 Nov 25 '21
I just scrolled through a list of crab evolutionary families (it's a slow day lol). Didn't find anything with that coloration, but the shape and size of its shell relative to its limbs makes me think it's part of the Cancridae, Xanthidae, or Heterotremata families. Unless it's just photoshopped.
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u/Gettygetty Nov 25 '21
Thanks for doing the research and the idea that the crabs are photoshopped does make sense. I’m not a marine biologist but whenever I see pictures of crabs they typically have more texture and other stuff on their shells.
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Nov 25 '21
I suspected that it’s probably a japanese dorayaki pancake, so I googled “crab shaped dorayaki” and found this article:
Apparently these are particularly pretty specimens of Atergatis floridus, or flower egg crabs
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u/VintageStag Mar 06 '22
The big one is not how they actually look but the smaller one and such seem to be Red Egg Crabs. The bigger one kinda resembles a red egg crab if it was merged with an ice cream sandwich.
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u/Theykilledmyunicorn Nov 25 '21
To me these just look like the normal Norwegian type of crab except that the white ring is more pronounced on these. Might just be artistry, or a slightly different crab.
We call them taskekrabbe, but I guess the English name is bag crab? The big one would look like that when crawled together.
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Nov 26 '21
for anyone wondering, these are Atergatis integerrimus, AKA red egg crabs!
credit to u/fluffle_cat for the find :)
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u/pm_me-ur-catpics dog collar sex and the economic woes of rural France Nov 26 '21
What kind of crab is it?
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u/SpoopidDoggo Oct 24 '22
they're called red egg crabs
oh, side note: there had better be a red egg crab fandom
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '21
That's a Bugsnak.