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Slipper Lobster Top View JMC_2227FLC

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Rather cute, but not cuddly, slipper lobsters are built like little tanks. They have dark, protruding, beady eyes, two antennae and a hard, cuticle carapace. They do not have claws like true lobsters. The body or thorax has eight segments and corresponding legs, and the head has six sections. They feed on worms, mollusks and smaller animals in the sand. They are in turn fed upon by large fish. They are edible but not harvested nearly to the extent that the Northern Atlantic Lobster. You can see in this photograph the sensory antenna poking out from the center front of the carapace head. They hatch from eggs to a larvae stage which is planktonic. After several molts it transitions to the lobster-like stage and continues to grow and molt. In mature form they are a couple of inches to 20 inches in length. There are about 90 species worldwide, mostly in warmer water. Slipper lobsters, or mitten lobsters, are nocturnal, and this one has crawled up onto a coral head,and nestled into a section of sponge.

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Janet MacCausland
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Rather cute, but not cuddly, slipper lobsters are built like little tanks. They have dark, protruding, beady eyes, two antennae and a hard, cuticle carapace. They do not have claws like true lobsters. The body or thorax has eight segments and corresponding legs, and the head has six sections. They feed on worms, mollusks and smaller animals in the sand. They are in turn fed upon by large fish. They are edible but not harvested nearly to the extent that the Northern Atlantic Lobster. You can see in this photograph the sensory antenna poking out from the center front of the carapace head. They hatch from eggs to a larvae stage which is planktonic. After several molts it transitions to the lobster-like stage and continues to grow and molt. In mature form they are a couple of inches to 20 inches in length. There are about 90 species worldwide, mostly in warmer water. Slipper lobsters, or mitten lobsters, are nocturnal, and this one has crawled up onto a coral head,and nestled into a section of sponge.
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