The major players in this remarkable migration are deep-sea species of crabs, including those from the genera Lithodes and Neolithodes. These robust crustaceans are well-adapted to the harsh ...

Scanning electron microscope images of the inner side of the right cheliped of Apseudes ranma. The left image shows the entire cheliped, and the right image shows an enlarged view of the white frame ...

Photo by Ziming Y., Wei J., Zhongli S. (2025.) Additionally, its front claws — the cheliped fingers — change from having white tips and a brown base to being entirely white, according to ...

Additionally, its front claws — the cheliped fingers — change from having white tips and a brown base to being entirely white, according to researchers. The new species belongs to the xanthid family — ...

Crabs, shrimps, lobsters, barnacles, slaters and other crustaceans are the stars of a new miniature exhibition presented by the Western Bay Museum, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric ...

The snapping shrimp genus Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 is well represented in the western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea and the Arabian-Persian Gulf, with over 100 species (Banner & Banner, 1981, ...

More information: Christopher Nicolai Roterman et al, Yeti claws: Cheliped sexual dimorphism and symmetry in deep-sea yeti crabs (Kiwaidae), PLOS ONE (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0314320 ...

“That it had originally been mistaken for a type of shrimp was not surprising because it is quite shrimp-like in appearance, though you might notice that the largest cheliped (claw) has a ...