During my last stay in Cyprus I came across over hard bottom several times the following swim crab. Any help in identification much appreciated. Immagine: 205,54 KB
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The specimen is scarcely corrugated (as I expect from a L. corrugatus), and the spines on the chelipeds are too many and too small... A photo taken perpendicularly to the carapax could have been better, but I think the most probable species is Charybdis hellerii
The specimen is scarcely corrugated (as I expect from a L. corrugatus), and the spines on the chelipeds are too many and too small... A photo taken perpendicularly to the carapax could have been better, but I think the most probable species is Charybdis hellerii
Well, I do not have a picture directly from above but here is a crop where the carapax is better visible. Immagine: 198,46 KB
-- Helmut Carl Simak Homepage (Mediterranean Sea life) Link