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Empty shells of Meganalanus tintinnabulum
... that the
barnacle
Megabalanus tintinnabulum
(empty shells pictured)
travelled from the tropics to the
Netherlands
by ship in 1764 and reached
Western Australia
in 1949?
... that
Polybius henslowii
has more swimming legs than other
swimming crabs
?
... that the
boxer crabs
Lybia tessellata
and
Lybia edmondsoni
carry a
sea anemone
such as
Triactis producta
in each claw for protection from
predators
?
... that
carcinologist
Isabel Pérez Farfante
and her family were blacklisted by the Cuban government because her husband refused to travel with
Che Guevara
?