Journal archives for May 2018

May 22, 2018

Celebration of Second Anniversary of "Crabs of the World!"

Thank you, fellow crab enthusiasts, for your participation in this project. In celebration of the second anniversary of “Crabs of the World,” I’d like to share some of my favorites from recent months, and recognize the 325 contributions of one member of the project. We now have a total of 910 crab species, 304 members, and 11,105 observations. Our goal is 1,000 crab species!

First, a fascinating video of filter feeding by Petrolisthses:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9087164 tony_wills NZ video

Our first crab sighting in North Korea:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10700958 amarzee

Amazing vampire crabs, mostly Ondrej’s:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/484146-Geosesarma

A dozen interesting and/or stunning posts by global members of “Crabs of the World:”
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9112236
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9434009
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10634449

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10290993
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10290951
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10287787
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10655834
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9501122
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4838244
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9830465
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9835672
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10448474

And finally a spotlight on budak, whose day job is being a freelance editor based in Singapore. In his spare time he joins intertidal surveys— http://wildsingapore.com/— to coasts and islands in the area (to document their biodiversity, for public outreach/communication and also to make a case for their protection against land reclamation etc). Not a diver, all budak’s surveys are 'above water' on mudflats, mangroves, seagrass beds, coral flats and patch reefs during low spring tides, which occur 3-4 days a month (before dawn or after dusk). He says the crabs he commonly finds are the small hairy crabs (pilumnids), arboreal (sesarmids), moon crabs (Matutidae) and swimming crabs (portunids), but also reef crabs (xanthids) and spider crabs (majids), and sometimes rarer sponge crabs (Dromiidae), elbow crabs, pebble crabs, ghost crabs etc. Thank you, budak, for all your contributions to support Crabs of the World!
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/crabs-of-the-world/contributors/budak

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