Friday, October 23, 2009

Blueprints On A Kitchen Island

"pea crabs" in the Red Sea

In the plankton nets in the Red Sea I found a couple of crabs, which were the size of peas. For me, I named it "Erbsenkrebschen. They were brown, not at all transparent, like other planktonic animals. I shot two, a smaller, probably younger animal, a zoea larva, and a larger, looked pretty grown up. First four pictures of the younger, it dislocated his together, then it opens and we see the abdomen folded. Blue eyes:





slowly opens and closes the Zoea the abdomen to the back.




Now we see the creatures of the real site:




- the abdomen is stretched trust:





A large, possibly adult "Erbsenkrebschen", about 8 mm in diameter.
first looked at the back, right below the two eyes:




view of the abdomen. The bird has become quite eingekugelt, curled. The abdomen almost black, folded. The two shears are protective against the stomach. The eyes are a transparent envelope: increased mapped




The area of the mouth and the sensor. The scissors are dotted with dye carriers (chromatophores). To the left scissors in a red worm has stuck:






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