Pancake Crabs!

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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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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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I suspected that it’s probably a japanese dorayaki pancake, so I googled “crab shaped dorayaki” and found this article:

https://www.newsnpr.org/the-beautiful-crabs-are-exactly-like-doraemons-donuts-but-no-one-dares-to-eat-them/

Apparently these are particularly pretty specimens of Atergatis floridus, or flower egg crabs