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Was the 8 legged crab you saw in a Florida estuary actually an arachnid?
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∙ 14y ago
Crabs are not arachnids, they are decapods. Decapod means '10 legs', it is just that crabs and some other species have specialised pincers on the front pair, meaning they only walk on 8. However the pincers are technically legs.
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I think an arachnid
Look up the word arachnid in the dictionary?
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