New crab species offers name with two 'Harry Potter' characters and a legend analyst

This is the new crab species and variety 

A recently discovered crab named after "Harry Potter" wizards may not be mystical, but rather its revelation is surely captivating.

The late Harry Conley, an ex-Marine turned scientist, uncovered the minor scavanger while burrowing along the shores of Guam, a U.S. domain situated in the western Pacific Ocean.

A quarter century between the time that Conley gathered the crab and when scientists distinguished it as another family and species. Adventitiously, the researchers, one of them a self-announced "Potterhead" grabbed the chance to name the undescribed critter Harryplax severus, after Harry Conley and J.K. Rowling's character, Harry Potter. [In Photos: A Bevy of Magical 'Incredible Beasts']