Decorator crab

This decorator crab was extremely cryptic, clinging to the sand covered algae stalk. His legs are almost invisible and the brown sponge on his back and head grows commonly in the algae. If you look close, you will see the crab has decorated one leg with three tiny white edged forams, as well as a larger 3mm white disk, also a foram. Just to the left of the white disk is an eye. Just over an inch long.

2 August 2015

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