Hairy Porcelain Crab, Porcellana platycheles, Filter Feeding

Here a Hairy Porcelain Crab, (Porcellana platycheles), can be seen filter feeding after being fed Marine Snow & Rotifers.

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It is also known as the Broad Clawed Porcelain Crab

Long Legged Spider Crab found at Poole

This Long Legged Spider Crab, (Macropodia rostrata), was found at Poole, it looks very delicate but is quite tough fighting off prawns & walking across anemones to steal food from them.

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