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Decorator Crab
Decorator Crab
Decorator Crab
Edible Crab
Mature Edible Crab
Edible Crab
Edible Crab
Harbour Crab
Mating Harbour Crabs
Harbour Crab
Harbour Crab
Harbour Crab
Hermit Crab
Hermit Crab in Painted Top Shell
Hermit Crab, topsy turfy
Hermit Crab
Hermit Crab with Cloak Anemone
Hermit Crab
Hermit Crab
Two Hermit Crabs with Cloak Anemones
Hermit Crab
Leach’s Crab
Leach’s crab half covered in a live sponge growth that the crab utilises for camouflage.
Sea Toads
Sea Toad Crab
Sea Toad Crab
Sea Toad Crab
The sea toad in the first photo was the only living creature seen on a forty minute dive just outwith the edge of the Lamlash Bay No Take Zone after an earlier visit this year by a scallop dredging vessel virtually cleared the sea bed of life…
Shore Crab
Shore Crab
Spider Crab
Long Legged Spider Crab
Spider Crab
Spider Crab
Spider Crab on Plumose Anemone
Spider Crab on Plumose Anemone
Velvet Swimming Crab
Velvet Swimming Crab
Velvet Swimming Crab
Velvet Crab and Plumose Anemone
Velvet Crab feeding on Common mussel (note the byssus threads exuding from the mussel as a defence action)