One of the most singular looking creatures that ever walked on the earth or “swam the waters under the earth” is the world famous man-faced crab of Japan. Its body is hardly an inch in length, yet the head is fitted with a face which is the perfect counterpart of that of a Chinese coolie–a veritable missing link, with eyes, nose and mouth all clearly defined. The curious and uncanny creature, besides the great likeness it bears to a human being in the face, is provided with two legs, which seem to grow from the top of its head and hang down over the sides of its face. Besides theses legs, two feelers, each about an inch in length, grow from the chin of the animal, looking for all the world like a forked beard. These man faced crabs swarm in the inland seas of Japan.
I am sorry to report that the “world famous man-faced crab of Japan” doesn’t seem to exist on the Internet. Too bad, I would have liked to have seen a picture.