![]() ![]() Cuttlefish vary in size but range from six to 20 inches in length.Ĭuttlefish have two eyes, one on each side of their mantle, and W-shaped pupils. They have a mantle (the main body cavity that contains their internal organs) like squid and a long, wavy fin used for movement that runs down the side of it. In general, you could describe them as fat squids with short arms and tentacles. Each species looks different from the next depending on where they live and the composition of the food webs to which they have adapted. Eels, shrimps, prawns, and claw fish abound, as do mullets.Cuttlefish share characteristics with their genetic cousins, octopuses, squid, and nautiluses. Voyage to the South Seas 180, They have a plentiful market of fish, which is the favourite food of the Malays, but no great variety: Claw-fish, shell-fish, and particularly oysters, though small, are pretty good.ġ808 Williamson Oriental Field Sports 2.177, The greater part of the fish in India are excellent for the table. Small, freshwater crayfish) Infs ME20, MA32, Clawfish.ġ773 Parkinson Jrl. 1912 Buffalo Commercial (NY) 4 Apr 7/1, Just the kind of place for the big shy old fellows to hide and lay in wait for some unsuspecting claw-fish or minnow. 1884 Harper’s Young People 5.671 NY, We have an aquarium, which we are trying to fill with fish, turtles, claw-fish, lizards. Farmer & Spirit 1.74, Like water dam’d up, it will escape, if not through a claw-fish or muskrat hole, it will break through or over the dam. but a plain farmer, in the habit of driving the tarrapins, minks, frogs, and claw fish, from their long sequestered peaceful habitations in the swamps. 1835 Tarboro’ Press (Tarborough NC) 29 Aug 1/1, I am no office hunter. 3.129, These fresh water lobsters we suppose to be what boys catch about country mill-dams, and call claw fish. Lobster with Special Sauce / Jumbo Shrimp ġ831 Amer. 2013 Morning Call (Allentown PA) 13 Sept sec A 10/2, Tokyo Seafood Buffet & Grill. You know they have one great, large claw. 1966 DARE Tape NC1, Down in South Florida in the Gulf, they have a fish down there that’s something similar to a lobster only he don’t have the big claw-which the proper name of it is a crawfish but they really call him a lobster. Walton’s was the only clawfish of the day, however. Walton Displays 12½-pound lobster caught while codfishing off Ocean City. ![]() Sun (Baltimore MD) 15 Feb sec D 13/1, Clarence A. The crabs are just starting to show up there in numbers, and folks are busy pulling in lines of the tasty clawfish. 1961 Tampa Tribune (FL) 15 Aug 20/4, Most of the activity around the marina has been along the city’s fishing pier. 1937 Allentown Morning Call (PA) 24 Oct 15/1, Clawfish Tails lb 39c. Sperling resides in the Plaza cottage and whenever the weather looks good for crabs he goes to the beach and hunts the claw fish with great energy. 1901 Asbury Park Daily Press (NJ) 5 Feb 1/3, Mr. John went off with his thumb in his mouth and we reckon he will be careful how he goes for “claw-fish” in a hurry. 1872 Oakland Daily Transcript (CA) 3 July 3/2, The lobster got John’s thumb in his claws. The body is like that of a claw-fish, or crab, having eight legs covered with hair. have each two long arms coming out of the head, and ending like lobsters’ claws. Post (NY) 15 June /6, Whereas the claw fish denominated Crab, has become somewhat scarce in the markets of our city, application will be made to the next legislature for a charter for a bank, to be called the Crab Bank, to be located at the foot of the Pike Slip, in the 7th ward, with a capital of $35, with privilege to increase to $50. Clawfish n ġ Generally, any of var larger marine decapod crustaceans sometimes appar applied specifically to one or another variety of these. ![]()
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