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Lybia tessellata is known to the wider audience as a boxing crab (or pom-pom crab). That name comes from the fact that lybia carries a sea anemone in each of the claw, anemones that resemble boxing gloves. It uses them for defense as well as doing punch-like moves when in danger. 1)
Decapoda is an order with about 10,000 species that the largest crustaceans belong to. They include American lobster, which can reach a weight of 44 pounds, and the giant Japanese spider crab, which has legs that can span up to 12 feet. 2)
There were early 10,700,000 tons of edible crustaceans produced in 2007. Humans mostly consume decapod crustaceans: crabs, lobsters, shrimp, crawfish, and prawns. 3)