Latest posts tagged with #25daysofcrustmas on Bluesky
A purple glass lobster on a green glass background, pre-firing.
Well, I didn’t find out about #crustmas or #25daysofCrustmas until the end, but here’s a pre-fired #lobster #fusedglass piece I created a while ago for a #sciart gift exchange on Twitter. It was slumped into a sushi plate. Have no idea if the person I sent it to liked it or not!
#glassart #art
A small Blackclaw Crestleg Crab reaching out to hug you, not pinch you.
A Northern Kelp Crab reaching out to hug you, not pinch you.
A Pacific Rock Crab reaching out to hug you, not pinch you.
A Striped Shore Crab reaching out to hug you, not pinch you.
Big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in #Crustmas this year! All these #crabs are reaching out to give you a hug of gratitude - no pinching, they promise. See you next year! #25DaysofCrustmas
Merry #Crustmas to all! To celebrate, here are some hungry hungry Pacific acorn #barnacles (Balanus glandula) from Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Hope your #Crustmas dinner is a feast! #25DaysofCrustmas
Merry #Crustmas to All!
#25daysofcrustmas #inverts #crawdads #crawmoms
A photo of a large chonky crab within a hole made up of old coral rocks. The crab has an orangey red colouration.
The final day of #25DaysofCrustmas and we have the largest land living crab Birgus latro- the Coconut Crab. This one is from Chumbe Island in Zanzibar where the population is growing year on year due to protection from the Ranger team there.
#Crustmas #🦑 #🦐 #Invertefest
The image is a snap of a page in my logbook. It is cropped to show the germane section. The block on white text reads: “We had a laugh squeezing through narrow sharp rust encrusted gaps. The micro-life was fantastic, zillions of tiny shrimps, about 2-3mm long & these WEIRD pink creatures about 25mm long, looking like a cross between an ant & a praying mantis. I couldn’t quite work out what they were up to, but they looked a little bit like this: <here there’s a little line drawing that looks exactly like a caprellid amphipod, *if you squint really hard and look the other way while using your imagination*>. Tiny mussels were feeding…” <The rest of the text is cropped out.>
So far #InverteArt has disappointed, with amateurish daubs of jellyfish, beetles etc.
I’ve posted this to inspire you all to greater heights.
I’d not heard of caprellid amphipods before and only found out what they were years later.
#25DaysOfCrustmas is also apt.
Merry Christmas, everybody!
A Babakina festiva nudibranch, which is primarily pink with orange and white candy-corn-looking cerata on its back. About 2/3rd of the way down its back, you can see a cluster of yellow copepod eggs protruding.
A closeup of the back of a Babakina festiva nudibranch, zoomed in on yellow-ish copepod eggs growing out of it.
Need to squeeze in a Nightmare before #Crustmas gift on #Crustmas Eve: the eggs of a parasitic #copepod (Splanchnotrophidae) growing out of a Babakina festiva #nudibranch! These parasitic copepods are species-specific, & this one hasn't been described. #25DaysofCrustmas
A bluish-purple Buoy Barnacle being held in someones hand. Its stalk is attached to a bubbly-looking float.
One larger and one smaller Buoy barnacle attached to a bleached By-the-wind Sailor. The Buoy barnacles are a bluish-purple color, and their stalks are attached to the underside of the By-the-wind Sailor.
Merry #Crustmas Eve, friends! Here are Buoy #barnacles (Dosima fascicularis)! They're pleustonic (living at the sea-water interface) goose barnacles that drift the ocean using floats they make or find- like Velella! Sometimes we get lucky enough to find them when they wash ashore. #25DaysofCrustmas
A photo of a transparent shrimp with a red line down its back and blue accents across its arms. It is sat nestled between bubble like corals that have a green tinge.
The penultimate day of #25DaysofCrustmas and we have a Bubble Coral Shrimp - Vir philippinensis. This is found pretty much all across the Indo-Pacific region where it is associated with Plerogyra sinuosa corals.
#Crustmas #Inverts #🦑 #UnderwaterPgitography
Just a little #Crustmas celebration from @montereyaq.bsky.social, reminding us that barnacles are just little weirdo crustaceans. #25DaysofCrustmas
A photo of a translucent white crab with small red dots creating bands across its body and legs. It is sitting on a soft coral that has bright white markings on its main trunk but is surrounded by purple polyps on yellow stalks
So it’s day 23 of #25DaysofCrustmas and we have another porcelain crab - but this one is hanging out on a colourful Dendronephthya coral. Only a few more days to go now - but I believe #Invertefest starts soon.
#MarineLife #Crustmas #Inverts #UnderwaterPhotography
A photo of a small cream coloured crab that has brown bands across its arms and carapace.
Day 22 of #25DaysofCrustmas and we have a little Porcelain crab that lives on a Sea Pen in the Philippines. They tend to hang off the sides wafting their feathery appendages to catch tiny food in the current.
#MarineLife #Crustmas #Inverts #UnderwaterPhotography
A brownish-gray crab being held in someone's hand, the crab is facing the camera. The crab has a lumpy carapace. Its claws are tucked in under the front of its carapace.
A brownish-gray crab being held in someone's hand. The crab is facing away from the camera. Its carapace is lumpy, and you can see short brown hairs on the edges of its legs.
The Bloody Pebble Crab (Leptodius sanguineus) is today's Hawaiian #Crustmas crustacean! It's one of the most common shoreline crabs in Hawaii – I found this one tidepooling in Maui instead of snorkeling. Pāpaʻi is the general word for "crab" in Hawaiian. #25DaysofCrustmas
A photo of an orange coloured shrimp. It takes its common name from the duck bill like appendage at the front of its head.
Day 21 of #25DaysofCrustmas and we have Leander plumosus - which is also christened the Donald Duck Shrimp. This one was found in the Philippines.
#Crustmas #MarineLife #Inverts #UnderwaterPhotography
Coming out of the corals in Anda, Philippines, this iridescently hairy squat lobster celebrates the beauty of the reef in his full holiday season colours. He’s almost asking for a pair of striped stockings..
#25DaysofCrustmas
A close up photo of a yellow Amphipod with bright red eyes.
So day 20 of #25DaysofCrustmas and we have a Caprellidae Amphipod - otherwise known as the Skeleton Shrimp. It’s always great seeing these tiny critters - especially the females when they have a dozen babies hanging off their bodies.
#MarineLife #Crustmas #Inverts #UnderwaterPhotography
A red-colored crab tucked into a hole, with urchin spines in front of it. The crab's carapace is very rounded and mottled with some yellow, and its claws are tucked in under the front of its carapace. You can see one round red eye looking at the camera.
Here's a #Crustmas cutie – a shy little Convex Crab or Marbled Stone Crab (kukuau in Hawaiian) (Carpilius convexus). It's found in the Indo-Pacific, from Hawaii to the Red Sea & South Africa. I found this one 6 years ago while snorkeling in Maui. #25DaysofCrustmas
A photo of a shrimp that’s predominantly red in colour but has a number of light green/grey markings across its back. Its legs are white as well as its tail. It’s sat on a red sponge.
So for the 19th day of #25DaysofCrustmas we have a mystery shrimp - no idea what species this might be. I believe I shot this in Bali.
#MarineLife #Crustmas #Inverts #UnderwaterPhotography
A fuzzy Sculptured Slipper Lobster being held underwater. It is mottled tans, browns, and yellows, with yellow and brown banded legs hanging down.
A fuzzy-looking Sculptured Slipper Lobster on coral. The lobster looks mostly mottled yellow and brown, with a fuzzy fringe around the entire outer edge.
This Sculptured Slipper Lobster (ula-pehu or ula-pápapa in Hawaiian) (Parribacus antarcticus) is one of my favorite Hawaiian #Crustmas finds, spotted while snorkeling with a good friend in the deep pools of the Kapoho Tidepools 10 yrs ago. Alas, the #tidepools are no longer there. #25DaysofCrustmas
Photo of a small shrimp that is transparent but with creamy white bands across its body. It also has creamy white yes. It is sat on an orangey brown whip coral
Day 17 of #25DaysofCrustmas and we have a very small Pontonides ankeri whip coral shrimp from Oman.
#Invert #MarineLife #UnderwaterPhotography
A photo of a tiny Amphipod that is oval in shape and whose body is covered by a diverse pattern of white, orange and yellow.
Day 16 is upon us for #25DaysofCrustmas even though it may look like a Christmas bauble it is in fact a tiny Amphipod belonging to the family Cyproideidae. Divers often refer to these as Ladybugs and they are super tiny and come in many colours.
#Crustmas #MarineLife #Inverts #UnderwaterPhotography
A seed or acorn cap with tiny, translucent porcelain crabs inside of it. The cap is being held in someone's fingers, and there are at least nine tiny crabs visible inside of it.
A closer view of the previous photo, looking down into a seed or acorn cap with tiny, translucent porcelain crabs inside of it. There are at least 11 crabs visible.
An even closer photo of the previous two photos. We can now only see part of the inner seed or acorn cap with four tiny translucent porcelain crabs fully or partially visible.
Oh what's that? A #Crustmas gift to you all: the cutest porcelain crab convention of all time, taking place in a seed/nut top. 😍🦀😍 #25DaysofCrustmas
#25DaysOfCrustmas
Apologies to those who've seen this already, but I think I posted it under the wrong #.
(Also, I think Klaus's work deserves the widest possible audience.)
A photo from above of a transparent shrimp with red and white lines across the body. It has emerald green eyes and is sat on an orange encrusting bryozoan.
Day 15 of #25DaysofCrustmas and we have Rhynchocinetes durbanensis - called the Durban Dancing Shrimp.
A photo taken through a microscope of a pair of isopods, seen from above. The two isopods are primarily a dull yellow color with mottled brown on the carapace. They have noticeable circular black eyes on either side of their head. They have six pairs of legs, and the visible ones are spread out at many angles.
Spiderwitchers (family Munnidae) under the microscope for #Crustmas! The Spiderwitchers are an essentially cosmopolitan, shallow-water family, & are detritivores, feeding on decomposing organic matter. I found this pair while doing my graduate work on mussel bed communities. #25DaysofCrustmas
A photo of a squat looking shrimp that is quite cryptic next to its anemone host. It has a creamy brown colouration with hints of orange
Day 14 of #25DaysofCrustmas and we have a little egg carrying female shrimp from the Philippines. This is Izucaris masudai - Leopard Anemone Shrimp. Found deep down on wire corals but are associated with the anemone Nemanthus nitidus that grows on the coral.
#Crustmas #MarineLife #Inverts
A photograph of a small light green shrimp sat inside the entrance of a white and green ascidian - there are vertical green structures behind the shrimp
Day 13 of #25DaysofCrustmas brings us a teeny weeny shrimp that lives in an Ascidian. This I believe is Periclimenaeus storchi that I found in Anilao Philippines. This was a single shot as it quickly disappeared into the back of its home.
#MarineLife #Crustmas #Inverts
A small red shrimp standing on a patch of dark green-colored algae. The shrimp has a hump in its back and has white and reddish-brown banded legs.
A small shrimp seen from above, standing on a surface covered in sand and brown algae. The shrimp has a pink head, then a white band, then is bright green down to its tail with a patch of white in the green where it has a humped back. The tail has some pink in the center, surrounded by green.
Today for the #25DaysofCrustmas we're venturing to a shrimpy branch of the family tree. Meet Taylor's Coastal Shrimp (Heptacarpus taylori), which I often find in the #tidepools. As a species in Thoridae, these are also known as broken-back shrimp. They come in festive #Crustmas colors too!
A photo of a honey brown colored crab sat on a similar colored coral - the crab is in a defensive posture.
Day 12 for #25DaysofCrustmas is a little protective crab on a small coral head - not sure of the species.
#MarineLife #Crustmas #Inverts
An amphipod seen from the side, grasping a blade of surfgrass. Its legs are reddish brown, and its carapace looks mostly white or cream with pairs of yellow-brown stripes banded down it.
A small amphipod on what looks like someone's palm or finger - only ridged skin is seen in the background. The amphipod is laying on its side with its reddish legs clustered together in the center of its body, and its carapace is curved, cream in color with pairs of slightly darker stripes banded down it.
Day 11 of the #25DaysofCrustmas: one of the more mysterious amphipods I've spotted in the #tidepools – Thorlaksonius sp. I've only ever found it once, & I can't find much information about this genus or the family that it's in (Pleustidae). Can anyone drop some knowledge about this #Crustmas cutie?
