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The Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) is a species of marine crab and is the biggest one that lives in the waters around Japan. At around 3.7 meters, it has the largest leg-span of any arthropod .
Heikegani (平家蟹, ヘイケガニ, Literal meaning: Heike Crab, Heikeopsis japonica) is a species of crab native to Japan, with a shell that bears a pattern resembling a human face – an example of the phenomenon of pareidolia – which is interpreted to be the face of an angry samurai, hence the nickname samurai crab.
Crab sticks, krab sticks, snow legs, imitation crab meat, or seafood sticks are a Japanese seafood product made of surimi (pulverized white fish) and starch, then shaped and cured to resemble the leg meat of snow crab or Japanese spider crab. [1] It is a product that uses fish meat to imitate shellfish meat. [citation needed]
It had glazed blank eyes on stalks, swiveling wildly and it clearly was a massive crab with crushing claws.' The largest known crab in the world is the Japanese Spider Crab.
Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi), the largest living species of crab, found on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Libinia emarginata, the portly spider crab, a species of crab found in estuarine habitats on the east coast of North America.
Macrocheira is a genus of crab in the superfamily Majoidea. [1] It contains the Japanese spider crab ( Macrocheira kaempferi ) as well as an extinct species, Macrocheira longirostra . [ 2 ]
A spider roll. A spider roll is a type of makizushi sushi that includes breaded or battered soft-shell crab and other ingredients such as cucumber, avocado, daikon sprouts or lettuce, and spicy mayonnaise, rolled inside nori and sushi rice. [1] [2] [3]
Hemigrapsus sanguineus, the Japanese shore crab or Asian shore crab, is a species of crab from East Asia. It has been introduced to several other regions, and is now an invasive species in North America and Europe. It was introduced to these regions by ships from Asia emptying their ballast tanks in coastal waters.