11 August 2015

Tuesday Crustie: The bells!


These charming little guys and gays are called hunchback amphipods, belonging to the family Cyproideidae. Yet another group of crustaceans I don’t know at all well. Except that some of them are darned photogenic.

Picture from here.

1 comment:

  1. Wow, those colors are amazing! The blue and yellow makes me think of Allogalathea elegans. I wonder if it mimics some kind of invertebrate host or if its aposematic.

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