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Answer for the clue "Light vehicle going around head of rare crustacean ", 9 letters:
land crab

Word definitions for land crab in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of the land-based crabs of the ''Gecarcinidae'' family 2 Any of the land-based crabs of the order ''Gecarcinucidae'' family

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Land \Land\, n. [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw., Dan., and Goth. land. ] The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage. ...

Usage examples of land crab.

The land crab may be seen scuttling to his hole, and at night the rats besiege the houses and the artificial gardens.

He's a land crab, and he's got to be convinced that the Channel crossing is a major task, otherwise bad faith accusations will start to fly, to Hitler's delight.

Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and toes like an opportunist land crab, it will hang you and catch your jissom like a scrutable dog, it will coil round your thighs like a bushmaster and inject a shot glass of rancid ecto- plasm.

The burrow of a land crab showed at the roots of a palm a few feet beyond him.