Talk:Japanese spider crab

message: This is interesting Mark Richards 23:34, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Well that is how it was identified on the NOAA picture gallery. I've updated the image source info to give a direct link. There are a number of species of spider crab, which seem to range in size and spindlyness. However, if I do a Google image search for other examples of 'Japanese Spider Crab', most appear to have a blotchy red on cream colouring although the body shape looks similar. -- Solipsist 13:33, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: The picture half way down this page looks more impressive. However the one in the foreground of this page looks very similar apart from the colouring. I remember eating these crab at a fish market in Hakodate Japan and many of the crabs for sale had been cooked which might account for the change in colour (if so it would be better to have an image with natural colouring). -- Solipsist 13:45, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: One more example , which I guess is the link that Mark Richards was going for above. This one looks quite similar and is less mottled, although the colour is still more red. More crucially none of these examples show much in the way of spikes on their legs, which makes me suspect the NOAA may have it wrong (or its another spider crab, but not a Japanese spider crab). -- Solipsist 13:54, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: An anon has just relabeled the picture as a 'King crab'. This isn't quite the right way to do it, but it also lends weight to the argument that it is the wrong picture. - Solipsist 19:37, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: The largest arthropod page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms#Arthropods_.28Arthropoda.29 uses this picture but the text cites a smaller leg span.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.110.186 (talk) 11:15, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Interesting

message: Can someone check if this is the correct picture? I think the spider crab is much bigger and thinner. Thanks. Punchi
:Well that is how it was identified on the NOAA picture gallery. I've updated the image source info to give a direct link. There are a number of species of spider crab, which seem to range in size and spindlyness. However, if I do a Google image search for other examples of 'Japanese Spider Crab', most appear to have a blotchy red on cream colouring although the body shape looks similar. -- Solipsist 13:33, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The picture half way down this page looks more impressive. However the one in the foreground of this page looks very similar apart from the colouring. I remember eating these crab at a fish market in Hakodate Japan and many of the crabs for sale had been cooked which might account for the change in colour (if so it would be better to have an image with natural colouring). -- Solipsist 13:45, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: One more example , which I guess is the link that Mark Richards was going for above. This one looks quite similar and is less mottled, although the colour is still more red. More crucially none of these examples show much in the way of spikes on their legs, which makes me suspect the NOAA may have it wrong (or its another spider crab, but not a Japanese spider crab). -- Solipsist 13:54, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: An anon has just relabeled the picture as a 'King crab'. This isn't quite the right way to do it, but it also lends weight to the argument that it is the wrong picture. - Solipsist 19:37, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: The largest arthropod page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms#Arthropods_.28Arthropoda.29 uses this picture but the text cites a smaller leg span.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.110.186 (talk) 11:15, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture correct?

message: Link posted in many posts on the Gamespot forums, Request Protection due to prevent vandalism
 Disturbedone465 09:26, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request Protection 

message: Its really the only way to stop the "vandalism"
I'm sure you could put a mention about this in the article on Genji 2.  As it is now, some (relatively) obscure videogame doesn't really merit a reference in an article about a crab.  Can you imagine how many hundreds of entries long a "popular culture mentions" section on other animal articles would be, e.g. Cow and Cat?  --Cyde↔Weys 17:43, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree cyde weys.  This article should have a mention of it because it IS in popular culture now, and should be noted.  Most people don't believe giant crabs exist, and this would be a good place to show the truth. Malamockq 21:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article itself shows that giant crabs exist.  Perhaps what you're thinking of is putting a link to this page from Genji 2?  Also, is the animal in Genji 2 actually a Japanese spider crab, or just a big crab? 22:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It should be added. In Genji 2 rthough the giant enemy crab is about the hieght of two men, and abou 5 yards in diameter.Qwerasdfzxcvvcxz 14:37, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

text: The thing is, the Japanese spider crab has NOTHING to do with the Genji 2 Giant Enemy Crab, other than being from Japan, and the giant enemy crab doesn't exist. Yes, large species of crabs exist, but that's totally irrelevant to a giant monster crab from a video game. It'd be like adding in a mention of Jabu Jabu into an article about sperm whales. --Foot Dragoon 05:15, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But the Giant Enemy Crab is giant, Japanese, and a crab. The Japanese spider crab is giant, Japanese, and a crab. How many giant Japanese crabs do you know? Why would they add a giant crab into a game about Japan without some background material? Could that all really be a coincidence? --Piroteknix 01:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

text: § I know a lot about the japanise spider crab i,ve seen them when i was in japan if u want more info on them (from a reliable sorse) you can go to http://420chan.com/and look for the member HeadFullOfGrass420 and i'll give u all of the information u could want on the Spider Crab off of east asia! § --CrazzyPhyco2Eatu 04:20, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

text:  i meant to put http://420chan.org/  srry but yeah hit me up (I LIKE PIE)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by CrazzYPhyco2EatU (talk • contribs) 17:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could we have some sort of mention of Genji 2 in there??? 

message: I'm Sugjusting this arctial be semiprotected just so every one knows Deuxhero 18:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-Protect? 

message: What do they feed on? How about their disposition? Do they or their subspecies or mutation attack people as some reports claimed?
:0 Now that's a large crab... looks tasty...
Why can't we talk about massive damagae?
:It doesn't relate to the subject of the article. ~ Booya Bazooka 05:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More characteristics 

message: just copy and paste:
he:סרטן עכביש יפני —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.1.211.131 (talk) 15:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Consider it done. Unregistered users can ask for edits to be made by adding  to the talk page of the article in question. --Stemonitis 17:47, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: tnx for the info and thank you for the edit. 89.1.178.27 21:10, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  can someone add interwiki to the protected article? 

message: The article says, in three successive paragraphs:
:...In spring, they can often be found laying eggs in waters as shallow as 50 m.
:...Catching of the crab is forbidden during the spring, when it lays its eggs.
:...there are efforts to protect them. In Wakayama Prefecture, the crabs are caught when they move to shallower waters in the spring.
Can someone who knows about this creature try to reconcile this a bit? --Ossipewsk (talk) 01:32, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catching in Spring? 

message: The only references on fossil Macrocheira I could find are Tertiary occurrences (Miocene, Oligocene (Macrocheira teglandi). That's a bit 'recent' to talk about living fossils isn't it? Especially when there are no references to M. kaempferi itself. Lycaon (talk) 15:32, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Living fossil? 

message: "The appearance of the Japanese spider crab served as the inspiration for the machines which invaded the Earth in the 1953 film The War of the Worlds."
this seems a little strange, as the 1953 film features floating vessels which bear little resemblance to spider crabs. Is it possible that the cited article may have been misinterpreted, as the original descriptions of the tripods and the illustrations from jeff wayne's musical version both seem far more likely to have been inspired by japanese spider crabs than the 1953 film incarnations.
:The original source (last paragraph) is ambiguous as to whether it's referring to the film or the 1938 radio play.  The source actually says the design of the machines is said to have been based on the spider crab, apparently reflecting uncertainty of the author.  I'm not sure whether this source is authoritive, and I couldn't find anything to collaborate the claim from a brief google search or by searching H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, or their associated talk pages and talk page archives.  So I've deleted the claim.  Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 05:32, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  War of the worlds film? 

message: I'm not an expert, but I think the romanization of the crab's Japanese name is wrong. The first two kanji in the name are "taka", high or tall, and "ashi", leg. Looking at the hiragana (seen here), the "ka" at the end of "taka" and the "a" at the beginning of "ashi" are separate sounds. When two vowels are seperated like that when romanized, aren't they usually separated by an apostrophe, instead of using a macron? Macrons are used for extended vowels in Hepburn romanization of Japanese words, and in this case it's a "ka" followed by an "a", rather than a single long "ka". Could someone maybe verify this and make a correction? 173.30.220.79 (talk) 02:55, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: You're correct, the macron is wrong and I've fixed this.  Apostrophes are only used when the word boundary would otherwise be unclear (kinen vs kin'en), which is not the case here; a hyphen is strictly speaking unnecessary, but might not be a bad idea. Jpatokal (talk) 04:45, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romanization 

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message: The article says "It also has a unique molting behavior that occurs for 103 minutes."  The footnoted article is about one observation of one individual in captivity, where the molt took "about 103 minutes." Certainly not supportive of what the article says.--142.163.194.161 (talk) 12:12, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  how long is molting?