New crab named after Harry Potter characters

[Still Waters]

A newfound crab named after "Harry Potter" wizards may not be magical, but its discovery is certainly enchanting.

The late Harry Conley, an ex-Marine turned researcher, unearthed the tiny crustacean while digging along the shores of Guam, a U.S. territory located in the western Pacific Ocean.

Twenty years passed between the time that Conley collected the crab and when researchers identified it as a new genus and species. Coincidentally, the scientists, one of them a self-proclaimed "Potterhead" seized the opportunity to name the undescribed critter Harryplax severus, after Harry Conley and J.K. Rowling's character, Harry Potter.

http://www.livescience.com/57601-newfound-crab-named-for-harry-potter.html