First you pound the fish flat with a mallet

[sovay]

Is it a bad sign if my first reaction to the discovery of a new crustacean is "Aww . . ."* and my second is "I wonder if it's edible?"

*So fuzzily Lovecraftian! Also, the fact that there's a Polynesian goddess of crustaceans simply rocks.

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[sovay]

It looks like the misbegotten offspring of Marilyn Monroe and a bedbug.

I was thinking a crawfish and a feather boa, myself.

Maybe the next family should be Samsaida?

It'd be a biologist's headache: changing species every time it woke up. "We've discovered . . . wait, damn, all right, we've discovered a new . . . hold on, it just . . . oh, for crying out loud . . ."