Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Shrimps ♥ Sea Urchins!! Videos showing tropical crustacean-urchin LOVE!

I'm not sure why..but for some reason there's a TON of awesome sexy shrimp-sea urchin commensal love videos floatin' round the Internets this week!!

Go Forth and be amazed!!

A shrimp that the videographer-the awesome Morphologic Studios identifies as Gnathophylloides mineri on the Caribbean "sea egg" Tripneustes ventricosus...


Morphologic studios shot this amazing footage of a "pea crab" (Dissodactylus primitivus)(length=7.0 mm!) on the heart urchin Meoma ventricosus!


A tiny shrimp on what looks like a fire urchin..


Here's a little guy in what looks like a diadematid urchin..with just some stunning video..


What looks like the same species...of shrimp/urchin...


I'm guessing this is a decorator crab that has added a fire urchin (Astropyga?) as it makes a break for it across an open plain...


Oddly enough here's another person with video of the SAME thing...

1 comment:

Hi! I'm Janola. said...

Those crazy crustaceans! The footage of the shrimp/urchin was beautiful. Thanks for sharing.