Porcelain styles, and there are several modern industrial manufacturers. These exported Chinese porcelains were held in such great esteem in Europe that in English "china" became a commonly–used synonym for the Italian term "porcelain". The first mention of porcelain in Europe is in "Il Milione" by Marco Polo in XII sec. Apart from copying Chinese porcelain in "faience" (tin glazed earthenware), the soft-paste Medici porcelain in 16th-century Florence was the first real European attempt to reproduce it, with little success. Early in the 16th century, Portuguese traders returned home with samples of kaolin, which they discovered in China to be essential
Porcelain crab are "Petrolisthes quadratus", found in large numbers under rocks in the intertidal, and the red-and-white polka-dotted "Porcellana sayana", which lives commensally within the shells inhabited by large hermit crabs. In Hong Kong, "Petrolisthes japonicus" is common. , some 4723 extant species porcelain crab had been described, divided among these 30 genera: The fossil record of porcelain crabs includes species of "Pachycheles", "Pisidia", "Polyonyx", "Porcellana", and a further 6 genera known only from fossils: The earliest porcelain crab fossil is "Jurellana" from the Tithonian of central Europe. Porcelain crab Porcelain crabs are decapod crustaceans in the widespread family Porcellanidae, which superficially