These are about as common as most other insects in this area. I also saw a younger, smaller one of the same species at the same time as this one.
Oil Slick Leap dive site.
Under the ledge with the ladder. Turns out it's hard to take a photo under a dimly-lit surge-buffeted ledge.
The Malacostraca (Greek: "soft shell") are the largest class of crustaceans and include most of the animals that non-experts recognize as crustaceans, including decapods (such as crabs, lobsters and shrimp), stomatopods (mantis shrimp) and euphausiids (krill). They also include the amphipods and the only substantial group of land-based crustaceans, the isopods (woodlice and related species). With more than 22,000 members, this group represents two thirds of all crustacean species and contains all the larger forms. The...
