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Lurking under rocks in the low intertidal
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This crab is usually found farther to the south, and this was the first time I have found it in 15 years of observations at Naples. My Marine Biology students and I found it under a low intertidal cobble, and we think it probably arrived as a larva carried by the warm waters associated with the 2014-15 marine heat wave in the NE Pacific. Duncan McCarthy, one of the students in my class, took the images.
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This crab is usually found farther to the south, and this was the first time I have found it in 15 years of observations at Naples. My Marine Biology students and I found it under a low intertidal cobble, and we think it probably arrived as a larva carried by the warm waters associated with the 2014-15 marine heat wave in the NE Pacific. Duncan McCarthy, one of the students in my class, took the images.