Talk:Scylla/@comment-31721556-20190901201334/@comment-39743779-20190901231919

She is a cthulhu...

Also just on grounds of me being me...

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/godzilla/images/c/c1/Scylla_in_Phoenix.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190818133557

Cephalopods are actually the only known mollusk that actually has bones and proper musculature to support limbs... well they are on that track for evolution to get them at least. They also have actual motor control like humans unlike crabs and arthropods who have automotor function (legs can't move individually, Scylla can move her legs one by one and control them with ease). Also if you look her legs are not from a central "track"as a spider or crab would be... they are from a varying point toward the backside... like they are attached to the "neck" area growing from the fleshy webbing area. Also the big reason im on the cephalopod boat... reflective non-compound shaped eyes... arthropods have compound not always reflective orb type eyes (crustaceans typically on an eye stalk), shaped eyes are she has a defined slanted eye shape set in a fleshy socket like a cuttlefish. Also the legs while obviously having a boney support have fleshy bits on where exoskeletal bits should be (main legs, past the joints).. .and again if you look at the pair facing you you can see her skin flap is folded... meaning it is a flesh type substance, something no arthropod has even soft exoskeleton joints don't look like that.. but it definatly looks like the webbing an octopus has between limbs.

Im indentifiying by taxon traits not "obvious" features because if we did that a human is a featherless biped and then a plucked chicken is by definition a man (that was literally how Diogenes pointed out a flaw in defining attributes to Aristotle), its why you gotta look deeper into the "What" of an animal... I mean key features are the primary but then look deeper into that, what do you see that doesn't and does stick out...

Crab legs. Sticks out. But while a key feature.... how do they move? Crabs are designed to walk sideways...most crustaceans in a paddle formation.. no motorcontrol. Scylla is able to move a leg and control what it does (this is why spiders like Kumonga or crustaceans like Ebirah in real life would be hilariously inept... neither can use their legs except in a preprogrammed way except in life or death situations where flight rules out instinct..)

I am willing to call truce but I really want to explain it because I am not trying to be a prick... I can see what you see but also the bits that stick out as definitivly not arthropod-esqe.