Ganimes

Following the destruction of its host Gezora, the Space Amoeba possessed a rubble crab native to Sergio Island, creating Ganimes. The creature resumed terrorizing the island's inhabitants, but was defeated by Taro Kudo using armaments left behind on the island from World War II. The Space Amoeba left its host and possessed a second Ganimes as well as a mata mata turtle, creating Kamoebas. Both monsters tried to eliminate the humans resisting the Space Amoeba, but the humans unleashed a swarm of bats that interrupted the Space Amoeba's control over the kaiju. Ganimes and Kamoebas then went berserk and engaged in a fight to the death, which ended as Kamoebas dragged Ganimes with him into the mouth of the island's erupting volcano, destroying the Space Amoeba along with both monsters.

* **Oh Yeah, Mr. Crabs:** Ganimes is the only one of his Space Amoeba-spawned brethren not to appear in a *Godzilla* film, through stock footage or otherwise, though he has made appearances in non-film media such as video games and books.
* **Shiny:** Ganimes, originally an ordinary rubble crab, was controlled and mutated by the Space Amoeba after Gezora was destroyed. Ganimes attacked the inhabitants of Sergio Island, in particular menacing the Japanese nationals Taro Kudo and Ayako Hoshino who were there on business. The giant crustacean chased the two to a cliff, but was rendered blind after Kudo shot out his eyes. Ganimes leapt over the cliff onto a field of explosives left over from World War II. Kudo wasted no time in shooting the explosives, blowing Ganimes to smithereens.
	+ **Creature Features**
		- **Name:** Ganimes
		- **Body parts:** Armor-like body with gigantic pincers
		- **Enemies:** Gezora and Sanda

## Space Amoeba

However, the Space Amoeba survived and divided into thirds: possessing another rubble crab to create a second Ganimes, a mata mata turtle to create the kaiju Kamoebas, and the human Makoto Obata. Both the second Ganimes and Kamoebas tracked down the surviving humans and attempted to finish them once and for all, but Obata resisted the amoeba's control and freed a swarm of bats from a cave, their supersonic sonar severing the Space Amoeba's control over the monsters. Ganimes and Kamoebas began to fight, their battle eventually reaching the summit of the island's erupting volcano. Ganimes threw Kamoebas into the volcano's crater, but the giant turtle bit down on Ganimes' claw and pulled him into the magma with him, destroying both monsters along with the Space Amoeba possessing them.

* **Crustaceous Cheapskate:** Ganimes appeared in the Bering Sea and attacked American crab fishing vessels.
* **Scissor Hands:** When Lucy Casprell visited Infant Island, one of the cave paintings she saw categorized all of the Earth's monsters (besides Godzilla) as associated with water, earth, fire, or air. Ganimes was one of the water monsters, along with Zilla, Varan, Titanosaurus, Gezora, Manda, Ebirah, and Kamoebas.
	+ **Did You Know?** Ganimes meaning "crustacean cheapskate"

## Chased by Sea Monsters

Ganimes' arms and claws were fabricated out of polyurethane, and his shell was instead sculpted in clay then casted. As these two explanations are conflicting, it is unclear which is true. Nevertheless, this section incorporates the latter. Yasumaru recalled that Ganimes' shell was made directly out of polyurethane, and his claws and spikes out of plywood.