Identify This Marine Crab.?
I need help identifying a certain (crab?) I found while scuba diving in the south pacific. I found it in about 30ft near the USAT Liberty shipwreck off the east coast of Bali.
if you look closely… it is missing two legs.
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Not enough legs for a crab. Perhaps a starfish?
I would call your local aquarium–you might try the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, CA.
Starfish .. Undersea spider type creature?? send the pic to a marine biologist
This looks like a sea spider to me, phylum Pycnogonida. I would check with a Marine Biology professor, check out La Jolla, Santa Cruz, or Oregon State University, they both have good oceanography programs.
Looks like a sea spider, also known as a pycnogonid.
yeah… that’s him – he did it