كركند
Homarus gammarus
#nm_0093📍 Egypt
- Language
- Standard Arabic
- Transliteration
- Karkand
- IPA
- /krknd/
Origin uncertain in the crustacean sense The same form is attested from the 13th century (Ibn al-Bayṭār) as the name of a red gemstone, borrowed from Aramaic qarkeḏnā and ultimately of Hittite origin; the lobster sense is not accounted for in the dictionaries
European lobster, a large clawed marine crustacean. Blue-black above and yellowish below, turning red only when cooked; the claws are unequal, a heavy rounded crusher and a sharp-edged cutter. Grows to 60cm and 5-6kg, though most caught are 23-38cm. Shelters in holes and crevices on rocky or hard-mud bottoms of the continental shelf, feeding on crabs, molluscs, sea urchins and worms.