I think it’s well established that shrimp (real animal) is bugs. For the skeptics, well, just look a shrimp okay? It has 5 pairs of legs. It’s also a crustacean. You know who else is a crustacean ?? ISOPODS, also colloquially referred to by the following names:
Just to be clear, Isopods are not technically “bugs.” In fact, most insects AREN’T. Only cicadas, aphids, hoppers, allies (not the straight kind) are “true bugs.” Okay but even still we commonly call all insects bugs. We also call spiders, millipedes, and other non-insect arthropods bugs. Hold on, you know who ELSE is an arthropods. THAT’S RIGHT—Shrimp.
Let’s turn our attention to the pokemon Clauncher. It is clearly based on a shrimp And as we established, shrimp = bugs. So it therefore follows that Clauncher (and Clawitzer) are bugs. You know who else would also be bugs??? All the “crab” Pokemon. Krabby, Kingler, Corphish, Crawdaunt, Dwebble, Crustle, Crabrawler, Crabominable (gross), and finally Klawf. I’m also going to include the fossil bugs (Kabuto, Kabutops, Anorith, Armaldo) because those are crab-adjacent. OHOHO—VERY INTERESTING. Dwebble, Crustle, Anorith, and Armaldo all are bug types as it turns out—AND AS THEY SHOULD. All of these other crabs should be bug types too, but I think TPC didn’t want to inundate the meta with too many bugs types because that would be problematic (for reasons that should be SO obvious). Just like how not all bugs Pokemon are bug types. Like Drapion.
So CHECKMATE, shellfish “truthers”
- armadillo bug
- boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
- butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
- carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
- cheeselog (Reading, England)
- cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
- cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
- chiggy pig (Devon, England)
- chisel pig
- chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
- doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
- fat pig (Ireland)
- gramersow (Cornwall, England)
- hog-louse
- millipedus
- QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
- mochyn coed ('tree pig'), pryf lludw ('ash bug'), granny grey in Wales
- pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
- potato bug
- roll up bug
- roly-poly
- slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
- sow bug
- woodbunter
- wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)
- wood pig (mochyn coed, Welsh)
Just to be clear, Isopods are not technically “bugs.” In fact, most insects AREN’T. Only cicadas, aphids, hoppers, allies (not the straight kind) are “true bugs.” Okay but even still we commonly call all insects bugs. We also call spiders, millipedes, and other non-insect arthropods bugs. Hold on, you know who ELSE is an arthropods. THAT’S RIGHT—Shrimp.
Let’s turn our attention to the pokemon Clauncher. It is clearly based on a shrimp And as we established, shrimp = bugs. So it therefore follows that Clauncher (and Clawitzer) are bugs. You know who else would also be bugs??? All the “crab” Pokemon. Krabby, Kingler, Corphish, Crawdaunt, Dwebble, Crustle, Crabrawler, Crabominable (gross), and finally Klawf. I’m also going to include the fossil bugs (Kabuto, Kabutops, Anorith, Armaldo) because those are crab-adjacent. OHOHO—VERY INTERESTING. Dwebble, Crustle, Anorith, and Armaldo all are bug types as it turns out—AND AS THEY SHOULD. All of these other crabs should be bug types too, but I think TPC didn’t want to inundate the meta with too many bugs types because that would be problematic (for reasons that should be SO obvious). Just like how not all bugs Pokemon are bug types. Like Drapion.
So CHECKMATE, shellfish “truthers”
