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Boxer Crab - Lybia caestifera This Boxer Crab - Lybia caestifera is small in size and colouration is well camouflaged with its surrounding, making it difficult to get very good picture with compact camera. Like all species of Boxer Crab, also known as Pom-Pom Crab, they carry Anemone on its claw as defensive mechanism and the Anemone benefits from scraps of food the Crab feeds on.<br /> <br /> Picture is highly cropped. Anilao,Batangas,Boxer Crab,Crab,Geotagged,Lybia caestifera,Philippines,Winter Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Boxer Crab - Lybia caestifera

This Boxer Crab - Lybia caestifera is small in size and colouration is well camouflaged with its surrounding, making it difficult to get very good picture with compact camera. Like all species of Boxer Crab, also known as Pom-Pom Crab, they carry Anemone on its claw as defensive mechanism and the Anemone benefits from scraps of food the Crab feeds on.

Picture is highly cropped.

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    Albert Kang
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    The picture I posted does not do justice to the beauty of this Boxer Crab.
    Here is a video showing this incredible Boxer Crab with their behaviours :

    https://www.facebook.com/bbcearth/videos/3230895223610678/

    The footages are of incredible quality capturing interesting behaviours, but most likely set up in an aquarium environment.     Posted 5 years ago, modified 5 years ago

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The Boxer Crab

Lybia caestifera is a species of Boxer Crab from the family of Xanthidae.

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Similar species: Decapods
Species identified by Albert Kang
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Uploaded Jun 5, 2017. Captured Mar 1, 2015 09:01 in Mabini Circumferential Rd, Mabini, Batangas, Philippines.
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  • DSC-RX100
  • f/10.0
  • 1/200s
  • ISO100
  • 37.1mm
Captured in the winter. More winter photos.