>>56124783This is one of those details that are lost without cultural context.
In ancient times in China, terms were used that covered a wide range, many of these terms subsist as archaisms in the current languages of some Asian countries, that is why Blastoise is the shellfish pokemon, because in China/Japan they use that archaism to refer to all edible aquatic animals that have a shell, including crustaceans, mollusks, and aquatic turtles.
Another example is the original ideogram of Nezumi, currently it is used for rat or mouse, but the original referred to all small, furry animals, which is why it includes rodents, hedgehogs, shrews, ground squirrels, and muskrats.
In the case of badgers, tanukis, weasels, wolverines, and other medium-sized mammals, they are grouped under the term "mountain animal or mountain meat" and were understood as a single species in general terms.
Pokemon in Japan uses many of these archaisms and when translated literally without context they sound strange to our Western understanding.
