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1812 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. i. 71 Crab-eating kingfisher.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §309 The Crab-eating Opossum is common in Guiana and Brazil, it..prefers marshy situations, where it feeds on crabs.

1883 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 82 Procyon cancrivorus, crab-eating raccoon.

1883 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 193 Didelphys cancrivora, crab-eating opossum.

1895 tr. R. Schmidtlein Brehm's Life Animals 594/2 The Crab-eating Opossum has a wide geographical range, extending perhaps throughout all of tropical America.

1900 Daily News 28 Nov. 7/2 A crab-eating racoon from South America.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 27 Dec. 10/2 A crab-eating opossum.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 10/2 Stones are always met with in the stomachs of two species of Antarctic seals. The Crab-eating seal is one of these..swallowing them to act as grindstones, whereby the hard shells of the crabs may be properly broken up.

1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes vi. 89 The length of the cycle in the common or crab-eating macaque is approximately the same as in other macaques.

1954 G. Durrell Three Singles to Adventure vii. 156 It was a broad, flat head with neat rounded ears and a dog-like muzzle. The creature's colouring was ash grey, but across the eyes was a wide black band... ‘A crab-eating raccoon.’

1966 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Apes i. 20 Crab-eating macaques in Bali are apparently treated with as much deference as the sacred monkeys of India.