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Suhodo Kartarahardja ââ
‚¬Ĺ“Polydectus cupulifer” found @ GORONTALO, Indonesia.
1/500s, f/5, ISO80
Auto WB
Focal: 15mm
Canon PowerShot G9 with stacked INON close up lens, double Sea&Sea YS 01 | Gorontalo 2010
Uwe Schmolke Well done. Is this the one, they call teddy Bear crab?
YBhg Ivan Choong Oh yes Uwe !
Evie Go o..this is d teddy bear crab! Wow!
Ron Silver https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202055295173696&set=a.10200742599677129.198963.1526262126&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf
Ron Silver Blunt Decorator Crab, Camposcia retusa
Shane Siers Ron for the first time, I think I disagree! I've seen hundreds of C. retusa...smaller carapace, longer legs, much smaller/more hidden "face"...and look at it pinching a pair of tucked-in anemones like a boxer crab...I've never seen C. retusa with anything in the chelipeds like that...I'd be willing to bet it's a xanthid of some sort, closely related to Lybia...definitely very cool and unlike anything I've seen!
Ron Silver Thanx, Shane. I went back to my taxonomic keys and found it. This is a Round Crab, known as the Teddy Bear Crab,
Polydectus cupulifer.
Shane Siers Hey, same sub-family as Lybia, I was pretty close. What do you use for a key? Is it electronic/sharable?
Ron Silver I don't think so. It's materials I've gathered through-out my career.....actually extends back to my post-grad days. I will however,heartily recommend the Humann/DeLoach volumes on tropical Pacific reef creatures and reef fish.
Shane Siers Yeah, I've got their Reef Creatures volume thx.
Michael Tan Cheang Hin Is Teddy Bear Crab...
