It’s a brachyuran crab, but that’s as much as I know. But it’s so cool looking, I can’t resist including it.
Photo by Ezio Armando on Flickr; used under a Creative Commons license.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Tuesday Crustie: Porcupine
One of the problems with doing the Tuesday Crustie features is that it often makes me feel incredibly ignorant. I can’t even hazard a guess at what genus this animal is in.
It’s a brachyuran crab, but that’s as much as I know. But it’s so cool looking, I can’t resist including it.
Photo by Ezio Armando on Flickr; used under a Creative Commons license.
It’s a brachyuran crab, but that’s as much as I know. But it’s so cool looking, I can’t resist including it.
Photo by Ezio Armando on Flickr; used under a Creative Commons license.
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Looks to me like a member of the King Crab family, Lithodidae. After that the best guess is that it's a member of either the genus Paralomis of Lithodes, but I only say that because they make up a majority of the species in the family. Nice picture, too.
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