Swimming Crab
(Portunus xantusii)
© 2002 Paul Foretic
Mating swimming crabs
© Tracy Clark
© Terry King
Note the lateral spikes off the carapace
(this
photo was taken in a lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
© 2002 John H. Moore
Note the swimming crab hiding under this dead or molted
sheep crab (the larger one)
© 2001 Paul Foretic
© Jim Beyster