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Homarus americanus
This is my favorite of the rare color variations on the American lobster. Perfect bilateral split between normal color and a lighter pigment.
In shore waters off Midcoast Maine.
The blue, calico and albino varieties are also pretty great to see...
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I wonder how this happened! :O Type of mutation?
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This is natural I have seen one in person alive it's very real but VERY rare, i'm pretty sure this individual is also a hermaphrodite, if not I saw one individual in a magazine that was.
Awesome spotting David
i hope this is natural this just looks like someone boiled half of the lobster
At an aquarium by me there is a blue, yellow, and a purple lobster.
Very cool.