Thursday, June 22, 2023

Tenuous hand?

 I promised you hermits.

Widehand hermit.

This is the same hermit I posted a few weeks ago, from the side. This view shows the reason for his name, Widehand, Elassochirus tenuimanus. It's a bit confusing, looking at the Latin name; "tenuis" means "thin, drawn out, meager, slim, slender". (Online Etymology Dictionary) And "manus" is, of course, "hand". But looking at it again, I see what they mean. The "hand" is wide, because it's flattened out, thin, in other words.

Smaller hermit, on a sand dollar. Possibly a blackeyed hermit. The sand dollar is very much alive, walking on his hundreds of tiny, black tube feet.

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Les prometí ermitaños.

#1: Un cangrejo ermitaño "de mano ancha", Elsasochirus tenuimanus. Subí una foto de este ermitaño hace unas semanas, pero visto desde el lado. Aquí, visto de frente, se ve porque le llamamos "de mano ancha". Aunque el nombre scientífico, E. tenuimanus, parece contradictorio, pues en Latín, "tenuis" quiere decir "delgado, tenue, reducido". Pero mirándolo otra vez, lo entiendo; la "mano" será ancha, pero solo porque en la dimensión opuesta está bien aplastada.

#2: Un ermitaño más pequeño encima de un dólar de arena. Puede ser que es un ermitaño "de ojos negros". El dólar de arena está vivo y activo, caminando sobre sus millares de pies tubulares negros.


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