Saltwatershrimps. The animals are sluggish and nocturnal and feed on (dead) animals, detritus, etc. They bury themselves in the sand.

- Sculptured Slipper Lobster Parribacus antarcticus

Size: Body length over 30 cm; carapace length up to about 12 cm.
Colour:  Body and appendages are yellowish to reddish with brown splotches. Small head tentacles are blue.
Shape: The animal has a broadly oval shape, because the antennae are flattened into plates and the legs are short compared with real lobsters. No tooth-like spines at the edges of the antennae.

 Inhabits reefs. The animals are sluggish and nocturnal and feed on (dead) animals, detritus, etc. They bury themselves in the sand.

BES-eilanden: St. Eustatius.

[Marion Haarsma, feb. 2016]

- Humann, P., & DeLoach, N. (2002). Reef Creature Identification: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas (p. 420). Jacksonville (FL): New World Publications.

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