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Sargassum Swimming Crab

Portunus sayi

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25.8872, -80.1206

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This little guy swam into me while I was wading at the 96th St beach... I photographed him and put him right back on a piece of sargassum, to which he "happily" clung and floated away.

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PublishedSeptember 21, 2013

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