Discovering a New Species: The Fascinating Journey of Zhang Yixuan and the Crane-legged Huashi Crab

2023-07-17 15:40:00

Rolled limb Huashi crab. (Picture / Taken from Yulin Daily)

Zhang Yixuan, a 17-year-old boy from Yulin City, Guangxi Province, loves nature and creatures. Last year, he found several crabs in a mountain stream of Duqiao Mountain in Rongxian County. With his keen insight, he felt that these crabs were unusual, so he brought 7 of them back. According to research by experts, after anatomical observation under a microscope, it was found that compared with other species of the same genus, the end of the male abdomen of this crab is narrower, and the edge is everted.

“Yulin Daily” reported that Zhang Yixuan is 17 years old this year and is a prospective third-year student in Yulin High School. With a calmness that doesn’t match her actual age. Zhang Yixuan’s father revealed that when he grew up in the countryside, his greatest pleasure was to catch fish and shrimp with his friends, so he developed his son’s personality of loving nature.

Zhang Yixuan has been fond of fish, shrimp and crab since he was a child. (Picture / Taken from Yulin Daily)

Perhaps influenced by his father, Zhang Yat-hsuan has been fond of fish, shrimp and crab since he was a child. Later, with the rise of smart phones, in order to reduce his child’s contact with electronic products, his parents took him to play outdoors and embrace nature whenever they had time. Last year, Zhang Yixuan found several crabs in a certain mountain stream of Duqiao Mountain in Rongxian County. With his keen insight, he felt that these crabs were unusual, so he took 7 crabs home for research.

After anatomical observation under a microscope, Zhang Yixuan found that compared with other species of the same genus, the end of the male abdomen of this crab is narrower, and the edge is everted. After consulting a large number of documents and identifying it from the perspective of morphology, this crab is considered a new species. Under the suggestion of netizens, Zhang Yixuan contacted Associate Professor Zou Jiexin of Nanchang University and sent the specimens to Nanchang. Under the guidance of the other party, he further provided relevant information on the living environment and origin of this crab. It was identified as a new species of “Crane-legged Huashi Crab”.

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