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[ARCHIVED] Coconut Crabs
Topic Started: May 14 2010, 01:17 AM (4,026 Views)
Pando May 14 2010, 01:17 AM Post #1
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As the Chinese swamp of 120 MYF nears its end (got a batch ready) I've been wondering about Coconut Crabs.

The coconut crab is unique among arthropods that as they went on land their gills didn't turn into body tubes, but is currently in a proto-lung. In the Postozoic it goes further and turns into a real lung, allowing them to grow bigger. What is the biggest size they are able to achieve and what diversity can they have?

I'm guessing that they will be able to grow as big as a lot of vertebrates as some seascorpions (including a 7 foot long one) went on land and arthropleura existed.
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Pando May 20 2010, 03:23 PM Post #91
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How about climberbugs for tree ones and megacrabs for land ones, and both together make the Pulmoncers, of the order (or class) Pulmoncera?
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Practically Uninformed May 20 2010, 03:27 PM Post #92
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I guess we'll have to settle.

Any species so far?
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Pando May 20 2010, 03:49 PM Post #93
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I made the beaver crabs, don't you remember?
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Practically Uninformed May 20 2010, 03:56 PM Post #94
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I mean, specific ones, which I find to be more fun to name.
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Pando May 20 2010, 04:00 PM Post #95
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The beaver crab is the only species I made, so far.
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Practically Uninformed May 20 2010, 04:08 PM Post #96
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You oughta throw in some colorful critters, since this is an island.
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Pando May 20 2010, 04:20 PM Post #97
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I don't color my creatures, can't.

They don't all live in islands. I'm doing the Chinese Swamp, which isn't an island.
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Then at least for the island ones, there should be some wild and wacky diversity.
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Ook May 20 2010, 04:27 PM Post #99
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there is my idea...smaller,very colorfull crabs that live in rainforests :D
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Practically Uninformed May 20 2010, 04:32 PM Post #100
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They could have rounded, flattish shells, and be called... "Color Wheels"! :D
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Pando May 20 2010, 04:34 PM Post #101
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The coconut crabs thrive in islands, especially the ones that are free of chordates (in 120 MYF there are a lot of those).
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Practically Uninformed May 20 2010, 04:36 PM Post #102
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Will they be Color Wheels?
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Pando May 20 2010, 04:39 PM Post #103
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If you submit them in the proper thread and I like the idea.
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Practically Uninformed May 20 2010, 04:43 PM Post #104
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YAY!
Which thread is that?
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Pando May 20 2010, 04:44 PM Post #105
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Postozoic Species Submissions
It's pinned.
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