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!