Crab on the sternum, form a monophyletic group. Numbers of extant and extinct (†) species are given in brackets. The superfamily Eocarcinoidea, containing "Eocarcinus" and "Platykotta", was formerly thought to contain the oldest crabs; it is now considered part of the Anomura. Both the constellation Cancer and the astrological sign Cancer are named after the crab, and depicted as a crab. William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse drew the Crab Nebula in 1848 and noticed its similarity to the animal; the Crab Pulsar lies at the centre of the nebula. The Moche people of ancient Peru worshipped nature, especially the sea,
The Fisher-Girl and the Crab The Fisher-Girl and the Crab The Fisher-Girl and the Crab is an Indian fairy tale collected by Verrier Elwin in "Folk-Tales of Mahakoshal"; it comes from the Kurukh, a people living in Chitrakoot, Bastar State. A Kurukh couple had no children. They found a gourd by their rice field and started to eat it, but it begged them to cut gently. They found a crab inside it. The woman tied a basket to her belly, pretended to be pregnant, and then pretended to have given birth to the crab. In time, they married him off, but the girl did not