Metopauliasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Metopaulias is a monotypic genus of fully terrestrial land crabs which do not require to go back to the sea to spawn. Metopaulias depressus is a reddish-brown crab about 2 centimetres (0.79 in) wide which lives in the pools of water which form in the leaves of bromeliads in Jamaica. The female lays 90 or so eggs, then tends to her offspring, removing dead leaves which would deoxygenate the water and adding snail shells to the pool to provide high levels of calcium which they require, catching cockroaches and millipedes to feed them, and killing larvae of the damselfly Diceratobasis macrogaster which would otherwise eat them.