Still not quite sure what this is. Decorated all over like Oregonia gracilis, but with shorter more delicate claws, more like Pugettia gracilis, but narrower claws than it too.
Still not quite sure what this is. Decorated all over like Oregonia gracilis, but with shorter more delicate claws, more like Pugettia gracilis, but narrower claws than it too.
Summary[edit] Description: Graceful decorator crab (Oregonia gracilis) You are free to use this image with the following photo credit: Peter Pearsall/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Date: 30 January 2015, 16:12. Source: oregonia_gracilis. Author: USFWS - Pacific Region.
Description: Decorator Crab, Oregonia gracilis -- this was interesting in that this crab had decorated himself with sponge. Date: 14 March 2009, 15:14. Source: Crab with sponge. Author: Ed Bierman from CA, usa. Camera location36° 37′ 38.31″ N, 121° 55′ 02.01″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 36.627307; -121.917225.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Oregonia gracilis male ventral. Date: 8 September 2012, 11:12:04. Source: Rathbun, Mary J. (1925). The Spider Crabs of America. Bulletin (United States National Museum) 129. Washington: Government Printing Office. Author: Rathbun, Mary J.