Off topic: Stunning Crab Photos from Arthur Anker!

Today, a little diversion from echinoderm as we feature, once again, the stunning invertebrate zoology photography of Arthur Anker featuring some of his favorite animals!

A "strawberry crab" (Pelia mutica) from the Honduras

wow! A festive decorator spider crab called Cyclax suborbicularis (Majidae) from Moorea, French Polynesia

A "christmas lights crab (Paractaea rufopunctata)

The spectacular deep-water crab Rochinia crassa

An awesome looking leucosiid crab, Heteronucia venusta from Guam

A stunning Chilean hermit crab (Pagurus edwardsi) infested by a parasitic barnacle (=a rhizocephalan called Peltogasterella gracilis)

A striking striped crab, Liopetrolisthes mitra

An interesting grapsid crab, from French Polynesia

A gorgeous polka dot xanthid crab, Cycloxanthops vittatus from Panama

Stunning red xanthid crab, Liomera rubra from Guam

Fire crab! (Hirsutodynomene sp.)

More polka dots! (Trapezia tigrina)

A flat-rock elbow crab, Cryptopodia fornicata

and wow..there's more which I will add in another post some day!