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Box Crab

Calappa hepatica

Photo by AlbertKang
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Description:

Saw this Female Box Crab during Sunset dive, heavy with Eggs and then she perched herself on a small mount and started to release her Eggs/Embryos into the water column. The tiny white dots in the pictures are the Eggs/Embryos.

Watch the video to see her doing that.
She was probably carrying hundred of thousands of Eggs!

Habitat:

Benthic creature, tends to live among sandy bottom in the shallows.

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PublishedJuly 20, 2014

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