Pisa nodipes - Geknobbelde spinkrab

Pisa nodipes  Leach, 1815

Geknobbelde spinkrab

All photo's are from specimens that I have kept in my aquarium for some time. After they died, they were preserved in alcohol. 

Siouville, Normandy, France, May 1988. In vitro photo dead male, specimen A, L: 48 mm, 23-1-2024.

Siouville, Normandy, France, May 1988. In vitro photo dead male, specimen A, 23-1-2024.

Siouville, Normandy, France, May 1988. In vitro photo dead male, specimen A, with previous moults, 23-1-2024. The moult at the bottom left carries Cereus pedunculatus. See also previous photo's.

Siouville, Normandy, France, May 1988. In vitro photo dead male, specimen B, L: 30 mm, 24-1-2024. Carapace covered by an unidentified sponge.

Siouville, Normandy, France, May 1988. In vitro photo dead male, specimen B, 24-1-2024.

Nikiana, Lefkas, Greece, August 1988. In vitro photo dead male (at the bottom)with previous moults, L: 39 mm, 24-1-2024. With attached pieces of a Bryozoan species on the carapace.

Desimou Bay, Lefkas, Greece, August 1986. In vitro photo dead male, L: 34 mm, 24-1-2024.