1,680 Crab Species!

Greetings to all 632 members of Crabs of The World! In the past two months we’ve added 51 new crab species for a total of 1,680. Congratulations! Every few months I highlight new species and interesting observations, and about a dozen are below. Beginning with my next post, the Managers of this project will be featured. Interviews will share how they became interested in crabs, what they are currently working on, and what their favorite crabs are. Stay tuned!

A hermit crab by @crabsandshrimps in California:
A Pagurus retrorsimanus:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/80696063

Two sightings and the ID of a Glyptolithodes cristatipes, the only species in that genus; here’s one by @amutti also in California:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/85308227

Here’s a new Eurasian Freshwater Crabs by @chekiangense_longpotamon in China; he added several other species new to Crabs of the World. A Longpotamon hanyangense:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/79637323

A brilliant orange Euryozius bouvieri by @dennisthediver in the Canary Islands, Spain:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/81616436
and not new, but a great photo by Dennis of a Cryptosoma cristatum (Box Crab) being carried off by a European Common Cuttlefish (iNaturalist’s Observation of the Day):
www.inaturalist.org/observations/79408197

Here’s a beautiful new purple crab by @smithsonian_marinegeo in Hong Kong from a project between The Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Hong Kong’s Swire Institute of Marine Science in 2017. Notice the red eyes in this Novactaea pulchella:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/84079484

Beautiful orange eyes on this Neosarmatium fourmanoiri (Fourmanour’s Mangrove Crab) by @jenssommer01 in Australia:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/85562222

And beautiful amber eyes on this Lithodes santolla (Southern King Crab) by @argentinasubmarina in Argentina:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/85767402

Here’s a regional variant of the Dardanus lagopodes (Hairy Red Hermit Crab) by @amanda222 in Thailand:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/69467040

A video of a very active Pagurixus hectori by @kelvinperrie in New Zealand:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/81240287

An excellent photo of an Ebalia intermedia (Smooth Nut Crab) by @paul_isotope in Australia:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/82967334

A truly adorable, tiny baby Cryptolithodes typicus (Butterfly King Crab) by @kljinsitka in Alaska:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/84549206

A nudibranch pointed the way to an unidentified juvenile King Crab by @thiebaud off Whidbey Island, Washington State:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/83890672

Publicado el agosto 2, 2021 12:53 MAÑANA por wendy5 wendy5

Comentarios

Great sightings! =D <3

Publicado por dennisthediver hace más de 2 años

Nice! Thanks for being included.

Publicado por alphaj16 hace más de 2 años

我很期待中国的更多螃蟹能够被拍摄!I am looking forward to seeing more crabs photographed in China!

Publicado por chekiangense_long... hace más de 2 años

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