Northwest Dive Club

I found this crab hiding amongst the I-beams at Cove 2 saturday. He doesn't quite look like any crab I have previously seen unless he's just the hulk version of a kelp crab... He was probably 4-5" across his shell, very large, and just looks, well, WIERD! Anyone?

Scaled Crab, or Placetron wossnessnissssskippi... Wait, let me try that again. Placetron wosnessenskii. There, I think I got it right that time.

- Janna (tripping over that name there)

I can't imagine anyone would care, but i recently ingested the fact that the species name "wosnessenskii" is in honor of a Russian zooligical museum curator of the 1940's Ilya Voznesenski.

Normall reserved, I could not pass up this oppurtunity to dispense this information, as i see no other time i may be able to in my life.



also, "stewardess" is the longest word in the English language that you can properly type with your left hand.

okay, now its time to go to bed.

Scott

I heard somewhere along the line that such names end in "ski" because they couldn't spell "toboggan."

It's WAY too early in the morning to be thinking about such things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scott G wrote:I can't imagine anyone would care, but i recently ingested the fact that the species name "wosnessenskii" is in honor of a Russian zooligical museum curator of the 1940's Ilya Voznesenski.

Normall reserved, I could not pass up this oppurtunity to dispense this information, as i see no other time i may be able to in my life.



Scott

You learn something new every day...thanks Scott!