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This crab gets its common name from the cross-shaped mark on the carapace. Tradition has it that the Jesuit priest Francis Xavier lost his crucifix during a storm in Indonesia, possibly when he was trying to calm the waters. On the following day, while he was on the shore, a crab emerged from the sea holding his crucifix in its pincers.
The baby loggerhead sea turtle was about to become a ghost crab’s lunch when rescuers with a turtle monitoring group showed up in the nick of time As storm raged, volunteers saved tiny Hunting ...
The men set up a canvas covering to shield the boat from breaking waves and a "sea anchor" which keeps the boat perpendicular to the waves. The storm is a long ordeal, but the boat and the men come through unscathed. After surviving the storm, the men encounter giant, floating masses of seaweed, and enormous crabs.
Gandalfus puia is the only known New Zealand species of crab in the family Bythograeidae, commonly known as the blind vent crabs. Like other blind vent crabs, it only lives in hydrothermal vent waters. This species was first described in 2007 after specimens were collected from the undersea volcanic ridge near the Kermadec Islands. [3]
Dorippe frascone, the urchin crab or carrier crab, is a small species of crab in the family Dorippidae that was first described scientifically by J.F.W. Herbst, in 1785. It is found in the Red Sea and parts of the western and eastern Indian Ocean .
Libinia emarginata is roughly triangular in outline and very heavily calcified, with a carapace about 4 in (100 mm) long and a leg span of 12 inches (300 mm). [4] The whole crab is khaki, and the carapace is covered in spines and tubercles, [5] and, as with other decorator crabs, often clothes itself in debris and small invertebrates.
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