Attribution: Maristella D'Addario (University of Rome).A small crab, Planes minutus (Columbus crab), living on an individual of Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle). This crab is known to prey upon other sea turtles epibionts.Highly Commended in the BMC Ecology Image Competition 2012:BMC Ecology 2013, 13:6 doi:10.1186/1472-6785-13-6www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/13/6
Land crabSubfossilGrapsidaeIndigenous to the Hawaiian IslandsLocation found: Kalaeloa, Oahu, Hawaiian IslandsPictured here are end pieces of claws and legs.Subfossils of Geograpsus grayi, still extant in the Indian and Pacific oceans, are much rarer to find than Geograpsus severnsi, which is endemic but now extinct. www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/5126880848/G. grayi still lives in the Hawaiian Islands but apparently is very rare.journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjour...