A fact from Emerita analoga appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 August 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that although the Pacific sand crab can only crawl and burrow backwards (pictured), it can also tread water?
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The only common names of this animal include the word "crab", which is inaccurate. Since these creatures are decapods and live in the intertidal zone, "tide pods" would be a more accurate term. I don't have an actual point, I just thought it was funny.
GenericName1108 (talk) 23:29, 15 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
