Saw this bottle covered with gooseneck barnacles on the beach. It’s a Chinese brand and I didn’t see any Japanese text on the label. Can’t help wondering if it drifted here from China…It’s the west coast of #Okinawa so it sounds plausible.
(This post also makes up for my missed #Crustmas)
A large mauve sea anemone surrounded by small orange and white clownfish. A tiny red and white splotched crab stands jauntily amongst the tentacles.
As we bid adieu to 2025, and with it #Crustmas and #InverteFest, I leave you with the hope that you too may stand jauntily athwart what might otherwise devour you, or swim carefree through the threats surrounding, confident in your partnerships and resilience.
🦀🪸🐠
Two very spiky crabs on a rock in the dark, deep water tank at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
I believe this is photographic proof that Spicomellus (an extremely spiky early thyreophoran that made headlines this year) was an attempt at carcinization. 🦀
Of course, it could also demonstrate crabs exploring dinosaur morphospace.
#Crustmas, #InverteFest
Here's a late #Crustmas present for y'all.
I take the liberty of sending it to the Sciart feed 🐡
And #crustmas :)
Basalt outcrop in the sandy intertidal, festooned with large barnacles and mussels.
Patiently awaiting the New Year and a rising tide that will sustain us all, it's a diverse assemblage of barnacles for #Crustmas.
Happy #InverteFest!
official auction photo of the crab effigy vessel, redware ceramic, globular body standing on 8 legs with two claws and incised face details, single spout on top
closeup of the adorably serious face and raised claws resembling the “what do you want” Italian hand gesture - expecting lots of “Italian crab” jokes as a result LOL
Where are my #CrabTime & #Crustmas fans at - look at this little guy 😂
Land #Crab Effigy Vessel
Colima culture, E. Mexico, Proto-Classical, 100 BCE - 250 CE
Redware ceramic w/ brick red slip, black oxides
H17 x W18 x D20.5 cm
www.giquelloetassocies.fr/en/lot/10121...
#MesoAmericanArt #IndigenousArt
A paper lantern in the shape of a crab with a yellow sandbank in the background.
Late entry for #crustmas
Lobster in the dark. Virginia Aquarium.
Almost done with #Crustmas but it's always #InverteFest around here. Lobsta, anyone?🦞
Thank you so much for putting mine in it (p28 for the curious)! 🤗
So nice to see all these cool artworks! ✨️
#sciart #crustmas 🐡
Blue crab swimming in murky water over a mock-up oyster reef, Virginia Aquarium
Continuing #Crustmas and #InverteFest to the bitter end, here's an old shot of a blue crab swimming over an oyster reef in a mockup of Chesapeake Bay at the Virginia Aquarium. 🦀🦪
Giant isopod; a dim white apparition of an arthropod in a dark aquarium.
In the darkness of midwinter, something moves in the water.
It's giant isopod #Crustmas
Three more pieces of amber, including: Fly. Burmapogon robberfly, Diptera: Asilidae Spider. Diplurid spider, juvenile, close tarantula relative Cricket, roach. Cast exoskeleton of large predatory cricket, Grylloidea Small nymphal roach, Blattodea
Metasequoia was my first fossil, dug out from the John Day Formation of central Oregon while doing the summer field camp thing with OMSI's Hancock Field Station. Dad got in the habit of growing 'living fossils' including cycads as well.
Technically the insects here count towards #Crustmas
Giant barnacle, legs extending to feed
Still #Crustmas!
I think I have enough to make it through the year, but I am definitely raiding some very old aquarium photos to get there.
Giant barnacle, feeding. Oregon Aquarium (the other Newport).
Oh #Crustmas tree, oh Crustmas tree, how lovely are your cirri…
A digital illustration by Loadofolbobbins of a hermit crab standing on a sandy beach under vibrant blue sky. Wrapped round their shell is a string of glowing fairy lights that they hold in their right claw. On top of their shell is a glittery gold star, like a Christmas tree.
A very merry #Crustmas to one and all on this 25th day of #ArtAdventCalendar
#SciArt #Illustration #Procreate
Merry #crustmas !
Here’s my last parasitic crustacean of the holiday season. Ommatokoita elongata is a copepod that attaches to the eyes of Greenland sharks. Though this usually blinds the shark, it doesn’t seem to harm it much since they live in deep, murky water where sight isn’t that useful.
A close-up photo of homemade barnacle Christmas ornament hanging from a Christmas tree
Merry #Crustmas from my barnacle buddy
A Sacculina carcini barnacle parasitizing a swimming crab (Liocarcinus holsatus). The barnacle is yellow in contrast to the pale color of the crab and is highlighted by a circle around the crab's abdomen, brighter than the rest of the image. Credit: Hans Hillewaert, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacculina_carcini.jpg
A pentastomid (Linguatala serrata), a long worm-like parasite with a segmented body. It is mostly a pale gray color, with a darker streak along the front of its body flowing lengthwise. It is placed against a blue background. Credit: Dennis Tappe & Dietrich W. Büttner, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linguatula.jpg
A tongue-eating louse (Cymothoa exigua) in the mouth of a sand steenbras (Lithognathus mormyrus), held in a human hand. The fish is a metallic yellow-green color and only the head is visible, while the isopod is pale grey and just barely visible in the fish's mouth. Credit: Marco Vinci, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cymothoa_exigua_parassita_Lithognathus_mormyrus.JPG
Three life stages of the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis). At top is a mature female, trailed by two long, thin, pale egg strings. Its cephalothorax (to the right) is brown and patterned, while its genital segment (between the cephalothorax and the egg strings) is a darker reddish-brown. Below this female is another adult female, but without egg strings. It is similar in appearance to the female above it. At the bottom is an immature sea louse, smaller than the other two and with a much smaller genital segment, but otherwise similar in color. They are all against a white background. Credit: Thomas Bjørkan, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salmonlouse.jpg
On this day of #Crustmas and #InverteFest, we're inviting you to learn about the strange and specialized crustacean parasites out there! Some will be instantly recognizable, but others are so specialized to parasitism that they don't resemble their free-living relatives in the slightest!
It all started when a bunch of hermit crabs grouped up and gave their old shells to smaller crabs. Now once every year crabs get together and give gifts to each other, they even have their own mascot, Santa Claws 🦀
#crustmas
A little yellow neocaridina shrimp sitting on an aquatic plant known as a “banana plant”.
Merry #crustmas to all who celebrate! Here’s a little yellow neocaridina as a contribution to the festivities.
Touch tank, Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center. On the right: hermit crab in the shell of a naticid moon snail. On the left: a docent lifts the front margin of a horseshoe crab that is trying to pry into a large whelk for lunch.
Merry #Crustmas! A hermit crab tries not to watch as a horseshoe crab unwraps a present. 🦀🐚
A wild isopod and a millipede sharing space on the sand and sort of forming a heart shape together
Merry #crustmas!! Let #invertefest begin!
Wood louse - Order: Isopoda
#Millipede - Class: Diplopoda
(Shot near Cincinnati 3-14-25) 🦀🪲🪳 #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #crustacean #isopod
My sculpture of an acorn barnacle—a crustacean!—in steel, bronze, and sterling silver, sitting on a white background. My hand touches the steel barnacle shell and provides scale (barnacle is just a bit smaller than my hand). The barnacle’s filter feeding legs (cirri) are spread dramatically wide.
Merry #Crustmas to all who celebrate! Hoping you are firmly attached to people you love, are able to scoop up large amounts of food, and can hide in an impervious shell when the social situation requires it ❤️
Coenobita perlatus found in Christmas Island.
クリスマス島のサキシマオカヤドカリです。クリスマスカラーです💡
🦀🦑🧪
#crab #オカヤドカリ #coenobita #Crustmas
Finally, my Hannukah crabs thread, even though that holiday has ended. I hope #Crustmas gave you some cheer! Now onto #InverteFest
So it's time for the literal #Crustmas themed crabs, to match my Hannukah and Halloween threads! (And to kick off #InverteFest I guess!) 🦑
Most obviously, the Christmas Island red crab, featured in this viral skeet
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#Crustmas!!!!
The hashtag was #Crustmas (inclusive of all crustaceans) so I almost missed this. But it's awesome!
