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Drama. These guys all normally get along pretty well, but here a squirrel decided to start something and nearly got kicked in the head as reward. Moments later they were back to munching sunflower seeds side-by-side again.

Snorkeling at Governor's Reef (max depth less than 20ft/6m).

In Humann & Deloach there's a matching photo for Paguristes punticeps, but it has the note "There are two other species with similar coloration and appearance, P. grayi and P. wassi."

Small elegant jumping spider with extra long tufted forelegs. Predominantly black body and legs. Each leg tipped with 3 bright white bands. Black pedipalps. Tufted forelegs are elongated with long fluffy furred ends, striped prominently with white. Spinnerets are small and white on a short rounded abdomen.

Specimen moved these legs in a deliberate waving motion.
Specimen roughly 1cm in length.

Night tidepooling.

Saw it catch and eat a rock crab! It hung out in a corner of rocks in camo-mode for a long time and let me take a bunch of macro photos, then eventually turned all red and smooth and jetted off, leaving behind a pile of perfectly-empty crab. No puncture/bite wounds in the carapace anywhere, just completely free of soft tissues except for the tips of the legs.

Translated from Dietel, Hedwigia 32: 30 (1893)

Uromyces aureus: aecidian and teleutospore beds erupt gregariously on either side of the leaf surface. Sometimes they cause only a slight yellowish discoloration, sometimes they are surrounded by a reddish-brown halo bordered with dark green. The aecidia are in very irregular groups, they often form elongated rings with many interruptions. The peridia are low and have an irregular slashed edge. The accidiospores vary greatly in size and shape, mostly elongate oval or ovoid, often irregularly polyhedral due to compression. They are 29-48µm long and 24-37µm wide and have a colourless, densely warped membrane. The teleutospore camps occur within and between the groups formed by the aecidians. They flow together in irregular groups and remain covered by the gray shimmering epidermis for a long time. The teutospores are mostly ovoid to spherical, often somewhat irregular, their membrane is smooth, uniformly thick everywhere and of an intense golden brown colour. The length of the spores is 29-40 µm, the width 22-32 µm. The stalk is of moderate firmness and about as long or slightly longer than the spore. On Allium validum. Kings River Canon, leg 12 July 1892. E.W.D Holway.