Porcelain Anemone Crab, Neopetrolisthes maculosus

Porcelain Anemone Crab- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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  The Porcelain Anemone Crab, Neopetrolisthes maculatus is also known as the Spotted porcelain crab. They are decapod crustaceans in the Porcellanidae family. Although they resemble true crabs they ...
ornate spiny lobster Panulirus ornatus

Ornate Spiny Lobster – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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,be The Ornate spiny lobster, Panulirus ornatus is also known as the Tropical rock lobster and the Ornate tropical rock lobster . They are among the largest of the Panuliris lobsters and are greatly favored ...
Durban Dancing Shrimp - Rhynchocinetes durbanensis

Durban Dancing Shrimp- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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The Durban Dancing Shrimp (Rhynchocinetes durbanensis) is also known as the camel shrimp, camelback shrimp, candy shrimp and the hingebeak prawn.  They obtain their name from the sideways movement that they...
anemone hermit crab, Dardanus pedunculatus

Anemone Hermit Crab- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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  The Anemone hermit crab, Dardanus pedunculatus has a mutualistic symbiotic relationship with the anemone Calliactis polypus. The anemones are collected by the crab and placed on its shell. The Ane...
Cryptic Sponge crab Cryptodromiopsis spongiosa

Sponge Crab- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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The Sponge crab Lauridromia dehaani is not often seen due to their nocturnal habits. During the day they hide in crevices or holes and are usually only seen at night.  As their name implies they decorate th...
banded coral shrimp (Tenopus hispidus) is also known as the banded cleaner shrimp.

Banded Coral Shrimp-Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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The banded coral shrimp (Tenopus hispidus) is also known as the banded cleaner shrimp. They are shrimp-like decapod crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Stenopodidea. Their bright red and white coloratio...
smiths xanthid Eriphia smithiii

Smiths Xanthid – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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Smith's xanthid Eriphia smithii is a commonly found crab on the East coast of Africa. Because of their large nippers and red colouration they are easily recognisable. APPEARANCE Smith's xanthid  grow to a...
Mole Crabs- Sea Lice-Genus Emerita

Mole Crabs – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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Mole crabs of the genus Emerentia, also known as sea lice, sand fleas or sand crabs, are small crabs that are seldom seen, except perhaps when their shells are washed up on a beach. APPEARANCE Mole crabs ...
Pink ghost crab Ocypode ryderi

Pink Ghost Crab

Alan Sutton
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A pink ghost crab (Ocypode ryderi), rescued from a nearby swimming pool and returned to the beach, puts on his best threatening behavior to try and scare me away. The so called ghost crabs are nocturnal sca...
natal lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus tenulcrustatus)

Natal Lightfoot Crab Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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A Natal Lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus tenulcrustatus) shines in the night from the light of my flash, freshly emerged onto the rocks from a dousing wave. The Natal Lightfoot crab inhabits the intertida...
underwater macro photography

Dancing Shrimp in Formation

Seaunseen
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A runner-up in Underwater Photographer of the Year, this image was taken on a dive site mooring, a large concrete block, which was covered in pink sponge...
Cinetorhynchus

Hinge Beak Shrimp

Hannah Jane
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An unknown species of Cinetorhynchus, possibly reticulatos, commonly known as a hinge beak shrimp sits on the coral feeding. Hinge beak shrimps are nocturnal and are mainly reddish in color. Because of the ...

Anemone Shrimp

Hannah Jane
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An anemone shrimp photographed while scuba diving off the coast of Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia. Photographed with a Nikon D7000 with a 60 mm lense, f/22.0, 1/60, iso 200....

Harlequin Shrimp

Hannah Jane
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Acouple of harlequin shrimp (Hymenocera picta), spotted on a coral reef while scuba diving off the coast of Tofo, Mozambique. Harlequin shrimp feed exclusively on starfish, including the crown-of-thorns sta...

Banded Coral Shrimp

Ulric Charteris
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A banded coral shrimp (Stenopus hispidus) photographed while scuba diving off the coast of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Here the cleaner shrimp advertises to passing fish by slowly waving its long white antenna...
Sculptured Slipper Lobster

Sculptured Slipper Lobster

Ulric Charteris
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A sculptured slipper lobster (Parribacus antarcticus), photographed while night diving in Dar es Salaam. With the somewhat flattened appearance and horseshoe-shaped carapace (hard shell of the exoskeleton t...

Peacock Mantis Shrimp

Ulric Charteris
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A rainbow colored peacock mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus), photographed while scuba diving in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The vast array of color is for mating purposes, colors are transmitted in wave...

Dar Dancing Shrimp

Ulric Charteris
3
A dancing shrimp (Rhynchocinetes durbanensis), also known as the camel shrimp, candy shrimp and hinge-beak shrimp. This red and white striped crustacean is distinguished by a moveable beak that is usually a...
Scuba Diving

Lobsters Crawling About

Renee Blundon
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Avideo of ornate spiny lobsters (Panulirus ornatus) during a night dive at Remora in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Several were crawling about the reef, coming right up to the camera on several occasions. Footage...
Lobster

Lobsters

Seaunseen
6
Lobsters are ten-legged crustaceans closely related to shrimp and crabs. They are benthic, or bottom-dwelling, and are found in all of the world's ocean, as well as brackish environments and freshwater. They...

American Lobster

Renee Blundon
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An american lobster (Homarus americanus). Notice the coloration of brown, green and red, some american lobsters are even blue or white. Lobsters only turn bright red after they've been cooked for dinner. Am...
Homarus americanus

The One in 2 Million

Renee Blundon
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A blue american lobster (Homarus americanus), photographed at the New England Aquarium. An estimated one in 2 million lobsters are blue due to a genetic mutation which causes a blue lobster to produce an ex...

A Spiny Lobster

Renee Blundon
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A spiny lobster, also known as a langouste or rock lobster and is from the family, Palinuridae, with about 60 species of achelate curstaceons....