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Ovalipes catharus

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... that one of the major prey groups of the paddle crab, Ovalipes catharus, is other paddle crabs?
ALT0a: ... that one of the major prey groups of the paddle crab is other paddle crabs? MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:02, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Source: "Natural diet of the crab Ovalipes catharus (Crustacea, Portunidae) around central and northern New Zealand" Wear & Haddon 1987

Reviewed:
Comment: There are other neat things like the way it uses its paddles to burrow or swim (we even have an extremely cool GIF of the former from iNaturalist), easily the most fascinating aspect is the prolific cannibalism – as much as 1/3 of their diet in some localities, as I recall.

Improved to Good Article status by TheTechnician27 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 02:25, 27 November 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: A QPQ is not needed. The article is long enough, has recently passed GAN, and has no copyright violations. ALT0a sounds better, but ALT0 is also fine. TryKid ^{[dubious – discuss]} 17:37, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

@TryKid: @Mandarax: The only thing that makes me hesitant to just call it the "paddle crab" with no species name is that Charybdis japonica is called the "Asian paddle crab"; to be specific, authors will sometimes refer to O. catharus as the "New Zealand paddle crab". In fact, paddle crab is disambiguated for that very reason. It's a bit messy, basically. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 19:18, 29 November 2024 (UTC)