It’s been only six weeks since my last post, and we have so many amazing additions to the project. Thank you to all 1,378 members for adding your observations to this project, as they’re not automatically added (and please remember: NO shrimp or crayfish).

We now have 2,363 species in this project, 34 more than my last post. I remember when reaching 2,000 seemed impossible! As always, first are species that are new to iNaturalist, and then others that are fabulous. Please notify me if yours is new, otherwise I won’t know, and I’d love to feature more new species!

Here are some of the new crab species:

Just a few of the amazing new crabs in the Marquesas by @tahiticrabs:
•A Ptychognathus crassimanus (Varunid Crab, found under a stone in an estuary!):
www.inaturalist.org/observations/238899058
And these need confirmation:
•A Cryptodromia marquesas (Sponge Crab):
www.inaturalist.org/observations/239003528
Three Round Crabs:
•An Atergatis latissimus:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/238902541
•A Danielea noelensis:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/238902535
•An Euxanthus huonii:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/238902530
•A Dacryopilumnus eremita, one of numerous individuals peering out of holes:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/239549385

Many wonderful new crabs in China by @yixuan_zhang; first Eurasian Freshwater Crabs:
•A Tortomon gejeu:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/233690721
•An Indochinamon flexum:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/233689540
•A Chinapotamon pusillum:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/233688592
And Southeast Asian Freshwater Crabs:
•A Somanniathelphusa brevipodum— needs confirmation:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/233689979
•A Somanniathelphusa nanningensis:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/205403609

Two unusual crabs in Indonesia in 2017 by @caleidoskopable:
A Genus Cryptopodia (Elbow Crab):
www.inaturalist.org/observations/233653973
And a Genus Tetralia (be sure to look at those legs):
www.inaturalist.org/observations/233647073

Two spectacular Pseudocryptochirus viridis (Coral Gall Crab) in the Philippines, a new one by @caleidoskopable:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/241321043
and from a few years ago by @albertkang:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/56030675

Some more fabulous crabs that aren’t new:
•A dazzling Carpilius corallinus (Batwing Coral Crab) in Bonaire by @coralreefdreams:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/234353794
•A crab that almost looks like a nudibranch (or a hedgehog?), a Family Dromiidae (Sponge Crab) in Australia by @streglystendec:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/234659775
•You need a sharp eye to spot a Galathea bimaculata (a Galatheid Squat Lobster), and here’s one in Fiji by @sarahmilicich:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/240879983
•Two very tiny (very adorable!) crabs also spotted with a sharp eye in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef by @kdapt-preacher, first a Paguritta harmsi (a Pagurid Hermit Crab):
www.inaturalist.org/observations/235693534
and a Tetralia glaberrima:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/235513253
•Speaking of tiny and spectacular, an unidentified crab in New Zealand by @glinks:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/235618343