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PumaKrieg
08/08/2010, 11:44 AM
This guy was caught on the east coast of Florida.
PumaKrieg
08/08/2010, 12:16 PM
is anyone able to see the photos?
diablo30xp
08/08/2010, 12:17 PM
some kind of crab i think. Rock crap maybe?
PumaKrieg
08/08/2010, 12:21 PM
He has 10 appendages including claws. He is about the size of a quarter at the moment. Anyone else?
VacavilleFC3S
08/08/2010, 07:13 PM
it's a decorator crab with some sort of sponge or coral or something completely encrusted to him.
PumaKrieg
08/08/2010, 08:09 PM
I personally am not sure its the case, but we will see if anyone else has any ideas that oppose yours. Anyone else?
Bongo Shrimp
08/08/2010, 08:13 PM
it's a decorator crab with some sort of sponge or coral or something completely encrusted to him.

+1 Either sponge or some sort of colonial tunicate. Absolutely a decorator of some sort.
Anubreed
08/08/2010, 08:24 PM
Well its obviously some kind of crab that has coral or sponge growth on its back or shell. Or maybe its an evolved type of sponge or Coral that has sprouted legs to make it more mobile. or I guess it could be some kind of demon creature sent here to bring in the apocalypse?
iamwhatiam52
08/08/2010, 09:30 PM
++ decorator crab with colonial tunicates
AaronM
08/09/2010, 07:56 AM
Dromiidae Crab?
kcooley
08/09/2010, 07:57 AM
that is a young staghorn hermit.
Bongo Shrimp
08/09/2010, 08:59 AM
that is a young staghorn hermit.

Certainly not. I'm now convinced it is a decorator/sponge-decorator crab with colonial tunicates on it.
LeslieH
08/09/2010, 09:42 AM
Spongy decorator crab Macrocoeloma trispinosum with tunicates.

Staghorn hermits come from the Pacific, Gulf of California down to Panama.