LOOKING LIKE A BUFFOON 13% 
says that the crab can run either way up. Another view is 
that these hind legs lift foreign objects on to the carapace, 
a female specimen, with separate figures, showing the chelipeds of the 
outer sides, the left cheliped being the stouter [de Haan]. 
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male from the inner and 
Fic. 10.—Dorippe japonica, von Siebold 
and a third that they help to repel animals that might 
otherwise tread on the crab’s back. The specific name 
which Herbst gave it means a knave, and is its trivial name 
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