Guernsey crustacea

Crustaceans found in Guernsey marine waters including barnacles; copepods; ostracods; malacostracans (cumaceans, tanaids, mysids, isopods, amphipods, and decapods (shrimp/ prawns, lobsters, anomurans, and crabs).

More images of crustacea can be viewed in the Belle Greve Bay, Guernsey gallery at http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/3514797#139888289

Velvet swimming crab or lady crab, Necora puber, at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast on 29th April 2006

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Velvet swimming crab or lady crab, Necora puber, at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast on 29th April 2006

The velvet swimming crab, Necora puber, is called a lady crab in Guernsey.

These red-eyed crabs are fast moving and aggressive except during copulation when couples can be touched without any reaction.
Necora puber lives under boulders and cobbles and will quickly move away when a stone is turned over.
This individual was under a cobble in the cobble field to the east of what I call 'overhang gully' at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast.
Photographed on the 29th April 2006.

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From La Valette on Guernsey's east coast

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Guernsey crustacea