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Of carids there are the so-called cyphae, or ‘hunch-backs’, the crangons, or
squillae, and the little kind, or shrimps, and the little kind do not develop into
a larger kind.
Of the crab, the varieties are indefinite and incalculable. The largest of all
crabs is one nicknamed Maia, a second variety is the pagarus and the crab of
Heracleotis, and a third variety is the fresh-water crab; the other varieties are
smaller in size and destitute of special designations. In the neighbourhood of
Phoenice there are found on the beach certain crabs that are nicknamed the
‘horsemen’, from their running with such speed that it is difficult to overtake
them; these crabs, when opened, are usually found empty, and this emptiness
may be put down to insufficiency of nutriment. (There is another variety,
small like the crab, but resembling in shape the lobster.) All these animals, as
has been stated, have their hard and shelly part outside, where the skin is in
other animals, and the fleshy part inside; and the belly is more or less
provided with lamellae, or little flaps, and the female here deposits her spawn.
The crawfishes have five feet on either side, including the claws at the end;
and in like manner the crabs have ten feet in all, including the claws. Of the
carids, the hunch-backed, or prawns, have five feet on either side, which are
sharp-pointed-those towards the head; and five others on either side in the
region of the belly, with their extremities flat; they are devoid of flaps on the
under side such as the crawfish has, but on the back they resemble the
crawfish. (See diagram.)It is very different with the crangon, or squilla; it has
four front legs on either side, then three thin ones close behind on either side,
and the rest of the body is for the most part devoid of feet. (See diagram.) Of
all these animals the feet bend out obliquely, as is the case with insects; and
the claws, where claws are found, turn inwards. The crawfish has a tail, and
five fins on it; and the round-backed carid has a tail and four fins; the squilla
also has fins at the tail on either side. In the case of both the hump-backed
carid and the squilla the middle art of the tail is spinous: only that in the
squilla the part is flattened and in the carid it is sharp-pointed. Of all animals
of this genus the crab is the only one devoid of a rump; and, while the body of
the carid and the crawfish is elongated, that of the crab is rotund.
In the crawfish the male differs from the female: in the female the first foot
is bifurcate, in the male it is undivided; the belly-fins in the female are large
and overlapping on the neck, while in the male they are smaller and do not
overlap; and, further, on the last feet of the male there are spur-like
projections, large and sharp, which projections in the female are small and
smooth. Both male and female have two antennae in front of the eyes, large
and rough, and other antennae underneath, small and smooth. The eyes of all
these creatures are hard and beady, and can move either to the inner or to the
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The Complete Aristotle
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- The Complete Aristotle
- Autor
- Aristotle
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- ~322 B.C.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156