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Spanner Crab

Ranina ranina

Description:

A large crab size up to 15cm. Brightly colored.

Habitat:

Always buried deep in the sand, only the eyes are visible to divers, about 15m deep.

Notes:

This is a long planed project, we use some fish part to attract this Spanner crab came out from the sand to feed and we successfully got these pictures of this beautiful creature,

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15 Comments

ShaumingLo
ShaumingLo 11 years ago

Thanks Jolly Ibanez and Tipiprada, i am sure two of you are from the Philippines??

ShaumingLo
ShaumingLo 11 years ago

Thanks Mayraspringman and sophialberiamartinez.

ShaumingLo
ShaumingLo 11 years ago

Thanks Williefromwi, been planing to get these shots 18months ago and finally we made it, the next will be Dugongs in that area.

ShaumingLo
ShaumingLo 11 years ago

Thanks Hanno Shelby.

tibiprada
tibiprada 11 years ago

Yummy :-0

Jolly Ibañez
Jolly Ibañez 11 years ago

Nice picture. These crabs are delicious.

ShaumingLo
ShaumingLo 11 years ago

Thanks Ismael chaves, you always give me word of encouragement.

ShaumingLo
ShaumingLo 11 years ago

Thanks Cindybingham.

amazing!!

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Wow!

williefromwi
williefromwi 11 years ago

Fantastic, effort to get these Impressive captures. If one could cast votes for spotting of the day, you would have mine.

Ismael Chaves
Ismael Chaves 11 years ago

Third picture is amazing

Hanno Shalaby
Hanno Shalaby 11 years ago

beautiful !

Ismael Chaves
Ismael Chaves 11 years ago

Wow amazing spotting, Should be SOTD

Awesome series!!!

ShaumingLo
Spotted by
ShaumingLo

Mati, Davao Oriental, Philippines

Spotted on Jun 11, 2012
Submitted on Jun 12, 2012

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