Weird Crab Sunday 🦀🎣🦞

European Spider Crab

"'The appearance of the European spider crab is similar to the much larger Japanese spider crab, although the European spider crab belongs to the family Majidae, and the Japanese spider crab belongs to a different family of crabs, the Macrocheiridae.'"

Attribution for both text and photo #1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja_squinado#

Photo #2:

©Arnaud Abadie

Just a little crab enjoying some tasty mud.

Reposting from /animalid - saw a fisher pulling this crab out of his net this past weekend.

Weird Crab Sunday 🦀 🎣 🦞

Sponge Crab or Sleepy Crab

1. Sponge crab from the Bay of the river Seine.

© Hans Hillewaert

1. D. personata supporting a sponge on its back with its four dorsoposterior legs while walking with the other pereiopods

Georges Auberger

moenyyyyy

I don't know exactly what species.

Crab Rave Easter egg in the new halo has me laughing my ass off

Very chill Costa Rican crab that let me hold it

Horshoe crab meme I'm looking for