katoo crab (generic term)

• • crab (generic term)
  • • animals, unclassified

  Scientific Name

  crustacea

  • • Example 3142:
      

      A hoovu na aniani nana bono katoo, o kehaa bara kobaa.

      The Red Emperor eats crabs, shellfish and hermit crabs.

      Source: Vaa 09W 143

    • Example 3143:
      

      Bea katoo vahuhu ore paa beera ore tei bona mahan. Rerau ore paa tei me bona haraharaa vai pasi venuta nana. Beo vuri teve vaa tea venuta ore paa vahusu bata koa maa, ore paa hopo vahaa tea govee teve, ore paa piipipi vaha maa. Rerau, ore paa venuta tea govee, be hiki nana ta aba vai to tara nana bona.

      When the crab is born and grows up, it stays outside. Then it senses that it is going to change its shell. When its time to change its shell approaches, it slips again into its hole and blocks the entrance. Then it changes its shell in the hole when nobody can see it.

      Source: Sii 2008W 050-053

    • Example 3144:
      

      Bea sivao takatakae vatanetaneo nana, o katoo vaa rasuu repaa hiri gunaha vo tahii bara hiri tavusu vo rori tea maa hanana.

      When the moon begins to rise, land crabs crawl down the beach and crawl out onto the roads.

      Source: Primer 01W:17

Related entries

• See also:
  • animano large crab living in the mangroves
  • esuu crayfish
  • haraa² grey beach crab
  • kobaa hermit crab
  • vaakae mangrove crab
  • goioo kind of crab
  • guvi¹ kind of large crab
  • hoovu Red Emperor
  • kaokaotaviri crab species called the "around-mover"
  • kaokaoto crab species
  • kete irihi walk along the edge of the coral reef, fishing for fish, crabs and octopus, and collecting shells
  • kurinae his or her hand
  • venuta (of crabs) change the shell