Right, it did kind of give me a feeling of "that's not what I remember it to be" writing that... and checking back I also realize that it referred to the land, not the species. Huh... I guess I'm still pretty tired.
And the bit about the name makes sense; truthfully I suspected that such might be the case, it just wasn't clarified and I'd only ever heard the character mentioned as Claw before. Nice to be certain, though.