The mouth lies underneath the eyes,
and inside it there are two teeth, as is the case with the crawfish,
only that in the crab the teeth are not rounded but long; and over the
teeth are two lids, and in betwixt them are structures such as the
crawfish has besides its teeth. The crab takes in water near by the
mouth, using the lids as a check to the inflow, and discharges the
water by two passages above the mouth, closing by means of the lids
the way by which it entered; and the two passage-ways are underneath
the eyes. When it has taken in water it closes its mouth by means of
both lids, and ejects the water in the way above described. Next after
the teeth comes the oesophagus, very short, so short in fact that
the stomach seems to come straightway after the mouth. Next after
the oesophagus comes the stomach, two-horned, to the centre of which
is attached a simple and delicate gut; and the gut terminates
outwards, at the operculum, as has been previously stated. (The crab
has the parts in between the lids in the neighbourhood of the teeth
similar to the same parts in the crawfish.) Inside the trunk is a
sallow juice and some few little bodies, long and white, and others
spotted red.
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