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This page displays images of crustaceans, like crabs, lobsters, shrimps, isopods.

Arthropoda - crustacea

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Unidentified Crab (Kani). photo: 08/1990, Bonin Islands, Japan. Coenobita purpureus [1], or murasaki oka yadokari. photo: 08/1990, Bonin Island, Japan. Cardisoma carnifex, or Minami Okagani. photo: 08/1999, Huahine, French Polynesia.

Grapsus tenuicrustatus. or Oo Iwagani, probably. photo: 08/1999, Huahine, French Polynesia. Uca crassipes., or Beni Shiomaneki. photo: 08/1999, Huahine, French Polynesia. Pill Bug [1], Oka Dangomushi or Armadillidium vulgare <Isopoda - Armadillidiidae>. photo: 06/2001, Tokyo, Japan.

A Sea Slater (MxF), Ligia exotica or funamushi <Isopoda - Ligiidae>. photo: 08/2001, Shimonoseki, Japan. Pill Bug [2], Oka Dangomushi or Armadillidium vulgare <Isopoda - Armadillidiidae>. photo: 06/2002, Tokyo, Japan. Uca dussumieri, or Yaeyama Shiomaneki. photo: 12/2002, Okinawa, Japan.

Uca coarctata, or Ryukyu Shiomaneki. photo: 12/2002, Okinawa, Japan. Uca perplexa, or Okinawa Hakusen Shiomaneki. photo: 12/2002, Okinawa, Japan. Mictyris brevidactylus, or Minami Kometsukigani. photo: 12/2002, Okinawa, Japan.

Tmethypocoelis ceratophora, or Tsunome Chigogani. photo: 12/2002, Okinawa, Japan. Etisus anaglyptus, or Togari Hizumegani. photo: 12/2002, Okinawa, Japan. unidentified Crab. photo: 12/2002, Okinawa, Japan.

Dwarf Zebra Hermit Crab [1][2], Subesube Sango Yadokari or Calcinus laevimanus. photo: 12/2002, Okinawa, Japan. Coenobita rugosus [1][2], or Naki Oka-yadokari . photo: 12/2002, Okinawa, Japan. Coenobita brevimanus [1][2], or Oo Naki Oka-yadokari . photo: 12/2002, Okinawa, Japan.

Unidentified Land Hermit Crab. photo: 08/2003, Darwin, NT, Australia. unidentified freshwater shrimp. photo: 08/2003, Kakadu, NT, Australia. unidentified freshwater crab [1][2]. photo: 08/2004, Brownsberg, Suriname.

unidentified crab. photo: 08/2004, Weg naar Zee, Suriname. A Pill Bug [3], Oka Dangomushi or Armadillidium vulgare <Isopoda - Armadillidiidae> and A Sow Bug [1], Hoso Warajimushi or Porcellionides pruinosus <Isopoda - Porcellionidae>. photo: 07/2005, Tokyo, Japan. A Sow Bug [2], Hoso Warajimushi or Porcellionides pruinosus <Isopoda - Porcellionidae>. photo: 04/2006, Tokyo, Japan.

Japanese Freshwater Crab [1][2], Sawa-Gani or Geothelphusa dehaani. photo: 05/2006, Kumamoto, Japan. A Pill Bug [4], Oka Dangomushi or Armadillidium vulgare <Isopoda - Armadilidiidae>. photo: 06/2006, Tokyo, Japan. Unidentified Freshwater Crab [1][2]. photo: 08/2006, Doi Inthanon, Thailand.

Unidentified Crab. photo: 09/2006, hat chao mai NP, Thailand. Unidentified Crab. photo: 09/2006, hat chao mai NP, Thailand. Unidentified Land Hermit Crab. photo: 09/2006, hat chao mai NP, Thailand.

A Sea Slater [2], Ligia exotica or funamushi <Isopoda - Ligiidae>. photo: 05/2007, Ehime, Japan. An unidentified Grapsid Crab, -i or -. photo: 11/2007, Penghu Islands, Taiwan. A Pill Bug [5], Oka Dangomushi or Armadillidium vulgare <Isopoda - Armadilidiidae>. photo: 06/2008, Tokyo, Japan.

A Grapsid Crab, Kuro Benkei Gani or Chiromantes debaani. photo: 2008/06, Tokyo, Japan. A Tadpole Shrimp, Kabuto Ebi or Triops sp.<Notostraca - Triopsidae>. photo: 2011/06, Kagawa, Japan. back to upper category


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