portrait

Big-assed land crab Cardisoma indet.


Location: Possum Point Research Station - near Hopkins, Belize
Year: 2004
Merckslides catalogue number: 14(04)-18254
Comments: This critter was my intro to the wierdness of the rain forest. My first night on the way to my cabin I chanced upon it. Its carapace is the size of my fist. Later discoveries of other individuals revealed that in some the right claw is big while in others it's the left.

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