> The so called coconut crab holds the land title for exoskeleton
> but the crabzilla is indeed monsters of the deep!
>
> I wonder if they are related or the same as a king crab.
>

Actually, this is just a good-sized specimen of the Japanese spider
crab, already famous as the living arthropod with the largest legspan.
 The king crab (the one that's a major Alaskan fishery-"king crab" is
also sometimes used for the horseshoe crab) is superficially similar
but in fact is more closely related to the hermit crabs.

--
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"

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