Our quarry was the Atlantic blue crab - Callinectes sapidus to marine biologists, which means "savory beautiful swimmer" in Latin.

In the winter months, when the big hard-shells - scientific name Callinectes sapidus, which means beautiful swimmer - are not available locally, the leading purveyors fly them in from ports in the South.

He was a young hellion - handsome as be damned, a beautiful swimmer and a scratch golfer, with an open MG and a speedboat and all the trimmings.

In Greek, callinectes means beautiful swimmer (which this crab is), and sapidus means savory in Latin.

Summer along the Hudson means crabs, and the crab of choice is the blue claw - callinectes sapidus, "the beautiful swimmers" or "savory swimmers."

In the imaginative film about his life, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," he is strolling by a pool on the grounds of the Playboy mansion when a beautiful naked swimmer recognizes him.

The title and theme of the film were inspired by the Latin name for the Chesapeake Bay's indigenous Maryland blue crab - Callinectes sapidus - Callinectes translates as "beautiful swimmers."

The famous bay oysters are replaced with the beautiful swimmer, the blue crab.

As its scientific name Callinectes sapidus (delicious beautiful swimmer) suggests, the blue crab is a tasty creature, often winding up in delicacies like Maryland crab cakes, crab-and-avocado salads and "she-crab soup."

Where Godzilla would have stomped, Mr. Benchley's great white shark chomped - on beautiful swimmers, depraved villains, obsessed shark hunters, even boats.