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Stuck on last one -28A Common active crab found on rock shores (5,9) I have ?A?L?L?G???O??; and Google isn't much help. Thanks
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.From an ancient book about marine biology left to me by an uncle ....who left me loads of old books dating back to the year dot by the look of some of them but they have come in very useful at times.
I looked up rock crabs and it gave me grapsus grapsus ...a red rock crab found in the Galapagos Islands amongst other places.....Sally Lightfoot and Google confirmed it . And Wiki gives it too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapsus_grapsus
My motto ...never get rid of books no matter how obscure the subject matter !
I looked up rock crabs and it gave me grapsus grapsus ...a red rock crab found in the Galapagos Islands amongst other places.....Sally Lightfoot and Google confirmed it . And Wiki gives it too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapsus_grapsus
My motto ...never get rid of books no matter how obscure the subject matter !
No ...nothing on the origin of the name in the book....lost in the mists of time no doubt . After a swift Google around .....
there is a Scots Jig called the Sally Lightfoot ...so perhaps they were so named by sailors on the voyages to the Galapagos because of the way they dance about .....they are mentioned as such by Darwin ....so you never know .
there is a Scots Jig called the Sally Lightfoot ...so perhaps they were so named by sailors on the voyages to the Galapagos because of the way they dance about .....they are mentioned as such by Darwin ....so you never know .
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