Ophiuroids (brittle stars) & other photography by Dr. Arthur Anker!

This week is busy and so I leave you with some STUNNING photography by one of my colleagues.. Dr. Arthur Anker!  He studies mostly shrimps and other crustaceans but does incredible things with a camera! If you're looking to hire a biologist who knows his decapods he gets my vote!

Artour's full photostream can be found here on Flickr!   Enjoy!

This looks like the top side of Ophiarachna

Here's the mouth and underside..

Damn... just stunning. An electric blue Ophiothrix from Australia (Great Barrier Reef)

Here's an Ophiothrix from Panama

Ophionereis? I think.. from Panama

I believe this is Ophioderma (giraffe patterned) from St. Martin

Some baby brittle stars from Moorea!

Some Non-echinoderms...

A male sea spider...

An amazing worm (Trypanosyllis sp. (Syllidae) from Moorea, French Polynesia. (ID by Leslie Harris)

A polychaete worm (Nereis cf. riisei) rolled up into a spiral

One of the most beautiful (and IMHO best named) crabs in the world-Lophozozymus incisus

A sexy yellow and purple hermit crab Pylopaguropsis lemaitrei from Moorea