# Lantern Crab

Walks sideways, glows forward.

Character · Fictionalized · Established

Stable ID: `starlight-crab` · Revision 1 · Updated 2026-10-30

Context: [Starlight Menagerie](/field-guide/collections/starlight-menagerie/)

[Web page](/field-guide/entities/starlight-crab/) · [JSON record](/field-guide/entities/starlight-crab/record.json)

## At a glance

- A teal shell and a lantern on a thin stalk. It walks sideways and glows forward, as the keepers like to say.

- Hunts Seven from about 30 metres away and keeps coming. A hit takes 7 points off a 100-point shield.

- Home: Pelagia.

## Appearances

- [Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html) (context: [Starlight Menagerie](/field-guide/collections/starlight-menagerie/))

- [The creatures](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/creatures.html): Named in this published page.

- [The map of Doorly Orbital](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/map.html): Named in this published page.

## Dated changes

- 2026-10-30: Added from the named source to the Field Guide.

## Open questions

- Inspired by Crab; the guide describes its game depiction.

## Sources

- [Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html)

## Reference library

### Scene

![Lantern Crab in the Starlight Menagerie.](/gamelab/assets/starlight-menagerie/creatures/crab-three.webp)

Lantern Crab in the Starlight Menagerie.

[Download original](/gamelab/assets/starlight-menagerie/creatures/crab-three.webp) · [Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html) · v1 · SHA-256: `564ca125723997d7f33575984391ec8a2b6a94304e8193a3d2bcfa963a8ccf35`