Portal:crustaceans Did You Know 7

Scyllarides latus (Decapoda: Scyllaridae) by Cornelius Sittardus

... that all that remains of the type specimen of the Mediterranean slipper lobster is a 16th century watercolour (pictured)?
... that the blind crustacean Polycheles typhlops preys on fish and on other crustaceans, probably acting as an ambush predator?
... that Edward J. Miers was paid 60 guineas for his monograph on the crabs of the Challenger expedition?
... that the genus Platythelphusa represents the only evolutionary radiation of crabs to have occurred in a freshwater lake?