A squat lobster and sea spider live on the fringe of a barrel sponge. Image captured August 5, 2010 by the Little Hercules ROV at 700 meters depth on a new seamount mapped by Baruna Jaya IV during the INDEX SATAL 2010 Expedition.
Image courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010
Put it down. Put it down. Put it down. Put it down. Put it down. Put it down. Put it down.
Squat Lobster / Allogalathea elegans / コマチコシオリエビ by TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋) on Flickr.
Squat Lobster hiding in bleached coral.
My photo of my one and only sighting (so far) of a Spider Squat Lobster (Chirostylus sandyi). It moved like an underwater daddy-long-legs. Just much slower.
![Komodo ‘11: Day 5: Coral Garden
Hairy Squat Lobsters [Lauriea siagiani] in a Barrel Sponge.
These guys are of the family Galatheoidea, not closely related to true lobster, or true crabs.
I will never ever get bored of seeing them.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo47msxZY81qeigaco1_1280.jpg)
Komodo ‘11: Day 5: Coral Garden
Hairy Squat Lobsters [Lauriea siagiani] in a Barrel Sponge.
These guys are of the family Galatheoidea, not closely related to true lobster, or true crabs.
I will never ever get bored of seeing them.
Crinoid Squat Lobster by my mentor Karen Chen
