Shaggy and Smoothie Crabs from Manado

I took these photos of tiny crabs in Manado. If you know what species they are please let me know.

The shaggy crab.

The smoothie crab (Neoliomera sp.?)

Hi Brian --

The red one is easy - Liomera cinctimana. It occurs on both sides of the Pacific & I remember it because I photographed one in Panama.

The other, well, I wish you had gotten a photo of it from the top. It appears to be a xanthid or in a related family & reminds me of the teddy bear crab Polydectus cupulifera but doesn't have near enough "hair".

Thanks Leslie.

Yes, I didn't think shaggy crab had enough hair to be a teddy bear crab, unless it suffers from alopecia. What about Pilumnus vespertilio?

That's the other crab I thought of but dismissed because I didn't think vespertilio had those discrete tufts on the back. But... looking through more images I see that it does. Check out Art's photo - http://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/2350...57622406853916/ So now I think you're right. :-))

Thanks Leslie, Art's photo looks very hairy compared to mine, but perhaps on reefs they are less hairy. Take this example of Pilumnus vespertilio on Massimo Boyer's website. His photo was taken in the same area and looks like it's had a shave.

Hmmmm.... I wonder about Massimo's because it doesn't have the tuft of hair projecting forward between the eyes. That seems to be very consistent among the ones identified by crab people.