On todays morning dive at Nudi Falls i found this cool crab. It is a very weird looking elbow crab whose colour and shape strongly remind of a skull – even though the shape is not really human … rather the one of the stereotypic Alien. So i will call it Alien Crab (i am sure it has another name). After i made sure, that this is not a dead crab or a piece of rock with a strange shape (i did the poke test and it moved …) i started to look for the eyes, but the shady areas, where a “skull” would have had the eye cavities did not contain any eyes. I finally spotted them right over the mouth – two yellowish spots under the inner borders of the “skull-eyes”. The crab was about 1-2 cm in size and i found it sitting on a small rock … after the photo session on this sponge, i placed it back on its rock.
Critters
Critter Discussion – Nudibranch Colouration
Nudibranchs are renowned for their stunning and diverse colourations, which make them some of the most visually captivating creatures in the ocean. Many Nudibranchs possess exquisite camouflage that allows them to mimic the colours and Read more…