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Field record · PE-2026-005 · Series II
Riviera Crab
Cancer plushia rivierae
The rockpools, low tide
Specimen examined at close range; correspondent kneeling, and regretting it.
From the notebook
A crab in three inches of water, doing what crabs do, which is to move confidently in a direction nobody asked about. I watched for some minutes before recording anything, on the grounds that it was better company than my notes.
Shell: warm. Claws: ornamental, in my judgement, though I did not test the hypothesis. Manner: brisk. Torquay has been photographed to death and observed rather less, and this is the sort of thing that has been waiting in it all along.
— The Explorer, Field correspondent, Plush Explorer Society
Archivist's note
Retrieved at low tide. The correspondent's knees are not Society property and will not be reimbursed.
— Keeper of the Collection, Plush Explorer Society
The record
Habitat
Rockpools & bathroom windowsills
Native range
The English Riviera
Family
Rockpoolidae
Rarity
Catalogued
First catalogued
Expedition Vol. III — Torquay
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