pom pom crab?

[maxtom 0]

Could you please help me identify the following critter? It is looks like pom pom crab, but the color and some form of "hairy skin" is new to me. Photo is from Lembeh strait.

[asmigel 0]

Hmmmmm, looks like a very hairy Boxer Crab. How big is this guy?

 

~abi

[maxtom 0]

Hmmmmm, looks like a very hairy Boxer Crab. How big is this guy?

~abi

it is 1 - 1.5cm...

[frisco 0]

To the best of my knowledge is a Lybia tessellata, known as boxer crab or pon-pon crab. In which dive site did you spot this critter ??? Was it in the shallows of Angel Window ???

 

All the Best .... Francesco

[MikeVeitch 0]

I recognize that one

 

Still think its just an albino boxer

[Leslie 0]

Unusual. First, because Lybia tesselata are never covered with floc with that - they don't have the hairs that decorator crabs use to attach their camouflague. Second, the color pattern - granted, it's very hard to see - seems wrong. There are several species in the same genus & in other genera that also carry anemones. Do you have other images of it Maxtom? It would be very useful to see it from different angles.

 

Found it - Lybia caestifera. See http://www.izuzuki.com/Zukan/Other/Ka2/himeKK2.html

[maxtom 0]

Is this one any better? I can try to make some close-up crops (but all the photos are frontal) of any area of interest.

[Leslie 0]

Thanks! The color pattern is much clearer and overall it matches very nicely the images of Lybia caestifera on that page I linked & elsewhere on the web.

[maxtom 0]

Thank you!