November 22, 2020: Squat Lobster
Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico 2014. Download larger version (jpg, 1.3 MB).
A close look at a squat lobster, Eumunida picta, residing on an octorcoral during an Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico 2014 dive on West Florida Escarpment at approximately 570 meters (1,870 feet) depth.
Interested in learning more about these deep-sea crustaceans? Read this mission log, “You Don’t Know “Squat” ... Lobster, So Let Me Introduce You.”