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Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scientific name: Scyra acutifrons

Taxonomy: Kingdom Animalia → Phylum Arthropoda → Subphylum Crustacea → Superclass Multicrustacea → Class Malacostraca → Subclass Eumalacostraca → Superorder Eucarida → Order Decapoda → Suborder Pleocyemata → Infraorder Brachyura → Section Eubrachyura → Subsection Heterotremata → Superfamily Majoidea → Family Epialtidae → Subfamily Pisinae → Genus Scyra

Common name: Sharpnose Crab
Locations: Eastern Pacific
Group: Marine LifeInvertebratesCrabs

Doesn't actively decorate as much as the masking crab. Instead, it just lets crud accumulate until it's camouflaged. Sort of like my kids do with their rooms.

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Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Small juvenile on tube-dwelling anemone
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
Scyra acutifrons (Sharpnose Crab)
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