Please help with identification...
tomad
Loc: North Carolina
I shot this years ago off St. Vincent in the Caribbean on Kodachrome 64, later scanned and processed it as a digital image. I have not been able to identify this creature. Is it a crab, shrimp, alien? If memory serves, the hole was about the size of a golf ball, give or take 30%.
tomad
Loc: North Carolina
I've been searching images on the internet and the closest I can come up with is a Mantis Shrimp, although in most of the internet photos the eyes and coloration seems to be different. Maybe a Spearer Mantis Shrimp...
Definitely a mantis shrimp. The oval eyes are indicative of the 'spearer.' Without seeing more of the shrimp I cannot identify the species.
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Yes, a mantis shrimp, don't know which species.
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