The King Crab Of China Stock Illustration

The Children`s Encyclopedia originated and edited by Arthur Mee 1960s - Social History.Vintage illustration of The King of Crab of China, the nearest living relative of the Trilobite of the Cambrian Age. Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting `tail`, usually hidden entirely under the thorax. They live in all the world`s oceans, in fresh water, and on land, are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton, and have a single pair of pincers. The Cambrian Period was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon.