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Friendly Crab id
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Fred
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To me it looks like Dardanus pedunculatus...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardanus_pedunculatus
Wolfgang
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The Reef Creature Identification guide for the Tropical Pacific (Humann& DeLoach) leads to the same species that Wolfgang mentioned.
Floris
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Thank the three of you for the ID!
Now that I know my friendly crab's name, Fred - Dardanus pedunculatus, I will send it a postcard to apologize for my absence these past few years due to the Covid virus.
Fred's family has a famous ancestor:"Dardanus, in Greek legend, was the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra, mythical founder of Dardania on the Hellespont. He was the ancestor of the Dardanians of the Troad and, through Aeneas, of the Romans.
According to tradition, having slain his brother Iasius, Dardanus fled from Arcadia—a mountainous region of the central Peloponnesus of ancient Greece—across the sea to the island of Samothrace. When Samothrace was visited by a flood, he crossed over to the Troad, married Teucer’s daughter Bateia and became the founder of the royal house of Troy."
quote from the Encyclopedia Britannica