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  Basic information for Inachus dorsettensis (Scorpion spider crab)
Inachus dorsettensis occurs in coastal waters from about 4 m to at least 300 m offshore on various substrates such as sand, muddy sand and seaweed-covered rocky beds.
Inachus dorsettensis has a triangular shaped shell (carapace) with long slender legs and a U-shaped snout-like projection (rostrum).
Inachus dorsettensis covers itself in tiny pieces of sponge and sea weed to provide camouflage.
www.marlin.ac.uk /species/Inachusdorsettensis.htm   (303 words)

  
  INACHUS : River god of Argolis in Greece ; Greek mythology : INAKHOS
INAKHOS (or Inachus) was a River-God of Argolis in the Peloponnesos, southern Greece.
I′NACHUS (Inachos), a river god and king of Argos, is described as a son of Oceanus and Tethys.
The river Inachus is said to have received its name from the fact of Inachus throwing himself into it, at the time when Zeus, enraged at the reproaches which Inachus made on account of the treatment of Io, sent a fury to pursue him.
www.theoi.com /Potamos/PotamosInakhos.html   (2068 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 571 (v. 2)
By a Melian nymph, a daughter of Oceanus, or, according to others, by his sister Argeia, he became the father of Phoroneus and Aegialeus, to whom others add lo, Argos Panoptes, and Phegeus or Pegeus.
The river Inachus is said to have received its name from the fact of Inachus throwing himself into it, at the time when Zeus, enraged at the reproaches which Inachus made on account of the treatment of lo, sent a fury to pursue him.
18.) The river had before borne the name of Car-manor or Haliacmon ; and as Inachus was the first ruler and priest at Argos, the country is frequently called the land of Inachus.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1679.html   (915 words)

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