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chelifriend.bsky.social
with apologies to @jopabinia.bsky.social et al. www.researchgate.net/figure/Gross...
Figure 2. Gross morphology in the convergent evolution of...
Download scientific diagram | Gross morphology in the convergent evolution of representative true crabs (Brachyura), porcelain crabs (Porcellanidae), hairy stone crabs (Lomisidae), and king crabs (Lit...
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October 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
jopabinia.bsky.social
Squat lobsters come in 2 clades:

1. Galatheoidea (Galatheidae, Munididae, Munidopsidae AND Porcellanidae)

2. Chirostyoidea (Chirostylidae, Eumunididae, Kiwaidae, Sternostylidae) AND Aeglidae AND Lomis
August 27, 2026 at 10:14 PM
alisonkestrel.bsky.social
The Porcelain crab family is really wide-spread, but these particular ones were found on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47805-P...
Porcelain Crabs (Family Porcellanidae)
Porcelain crabs are decapod crustaceans in the widespread family Porcellanidae, which superficially resemble true crabs. They have flattened bodies as an adaptation for living in rock crevices. They a...
www.inaturalist.org
December 15, 2024 at 6:56 PM
brendanlan.bsky.social
Merry #Crustmas! Here's a collection of crustaceans for the occasion 🎄
a freshwater shrimp in the family Atyidae on a moss/detritus covered rock underwater a flat porcelain crab (Porcellanidae) chilling out of water on top of some squishy animal of some kind a sand colored crab hiding on the sand with its eye stalks poking up out of the shallow water (Macrophthalmus banzai I think) a tiny hermit crab shuttling along - probably Paguridae
December 25, 2024 at 2:59 PM
amygdalamode.bsky.social
only one of these is a crab, carcinization is no joke
Dardanus Calidus: Hermit "Crab" Porcellanidae: Porcelain "Crabs" Leptograpsus variegatus: Purple Rock Crab Birgus latro: Coconut "Crab"
August 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
cjgladback.bsky.social
"Porcelain crabs are decapod crustaceans in the widespread family Porcellanidae, which superficially resemble true crabs." - Wikipedia

So it's one of the other branches of things Becoming Crab; like technically most insects aren't bugs because there are true bugs, if you're being taxonomical.
February 1, 2026 at 2:09 PM
minouette.bsky.social
For #SciArtSeptember prompt claws: A porcelain crab! 🐡🧪🦀Looks like a crab, has crab in its name…is it a crab? Nope. False crab. Porcelain crabs, Neopetrolisthes maculatus are decapod crustaceans in the family Porcellanidae, which resemble true crabs but are in fact closer related to squat lobsters.🧵
This is a hand-printed lino block print in black and red ink on white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper of a porcelain crab, Neopetrolisthes maculatus. Each print is 8” by 8” and printed by hand. It is white with red polka dots on a black background
September 5, 2024 at 1:14 PM
minouette.bsky.social
I also made a pattern of my linocut porcelain crab for #InsertAnInvert2024! 🐡🧪Porcelain crabs, Neopetrolisthes maculatus are decapod crustaceans in the family Porcellanidae, which resemble true crabs but are in fact closer related to squat lobsters.
A half-drop repeat pattern of my hand-printed lino block print in black and red ink on white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper of a porcelain crab, Neopetrolisthes maculatus. Each crab is white with red polka dots on a black background.
May 15, 2024 at 11:54 AM
minouette.bsky.social
A porcelain crab for #InsertAnInvert2024! Looks like a crab, has crab in its name…is it a crab? Nope. False crab. Porcelain crabs, Neopetrolisthes maculatus are decapod crustaceans in the family Porcellanidae, which resemble true crabs but are in fact closer related to squat lobsters. 🐡🧪🦀 🧵1/
This is a hand-printed lino block print in black and red ink on white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper of a porcelain crab, Neopetrolisthes maculatus. Each print is 8” by 8” and printed by hand. It is white with red polka dots on a black background
May 14, 2024 at 12:25 PM
minouette.bsky.social
I like this crab’s style. It’s a porcelain crab, Neopetrolisthes maculatus. 🐡🧪#inverts Porcelain crabs are decapod crustaceans in the family Porcellanidae, which resemble true crabs but are in fact closer related to squat lobsters. They have flattened bodies as an adaptation for living in 🧵1/2
This is a hand-printed lino block print in black and red ink on white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper of a porcelain crab, Neopetrolisthes maculatus. Each print is 8” by 8” and printed by hand. It is white with red polka dots on a black background
November 27, 2023 at 1:17 PM
minouette.bsky.social
A porcelain crab for #InverteFest! Porcelain crabs, Neopetrolisthes maculatus are decapod crustaceans in the family Porcellanidae, which resemble true crabs but are in fact closer related to squat lobsters. 🧪🐡They have flattened bodies as an adaptation for living in rock crevices.

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This is a hand-printed lino block print in black and red ink on white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper of a porcelain crab, Neopetrolisthes maculatus. Each print is 8” by 8” and printed by hand. The crab is white with red polka dots for on a black background
August 31, 2023 at 1:33 PM
jopabinia.bsky.social
Lede: buried! This is a revision of my favorite porcelain crab genus, Porcellanella 🦀

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
October 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
jopabinia.bsky.social
Absolutely not on my bingo card: finding out from @karenho.bsky.social that the CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp) made a video about carcinization, including a copy of my (uncredited 🫠) figure!?

Aside from that, the video has very cute footage of crabs and is fun 🦀

youtu.be/jgrsi23-Xfo?...
What looks like a chalkboard drawing of a phylogeny of crabs, labeling Brachyura, Anomura, and Meiura, with the words crab or not crab. In the next image you'll see this is exactly copied from my figure, based on orientation and that they included my character mapping for some reason while removing the labels? My actual figure. Gross morphology in the convergent evolution of representative true crabs (Brachyura), porcelain crabs (Porcellanidae), hairy stone crabs (Lomisidae), and king crabs (Lithodoidea). Losses (open circles) observed in frog crabs (Raninoidea). Topology simplified from our previous papers. Body plan features are assumed to be present in the common ancestor of each marked lineage but may vary considerably within each group. Photo credits: (A, N) Ondřej Radosta; (B, D, H, I) Tin- Yam Chan; (C, E, G, K, M) Arthur Anker; (F) Ling-Kuang Tseng; (J) Michael Marmach; (L) Darryl Felder
August 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
jopabinia.bsky.social
With the end of the month, #CrabAZ is truly over. I hope they helped distract you. As @upulie.bsky.social requested a megathread, I made a carcinization tracker, labeling featured genera (living in plaintext, fossil in italic).

Megathread follows, now back to your irregularly scheduled crabs! 🦀🧪🦑
Modification of Fig 2 from Wolfe et al 2021. As described below, but with the names of genera featured in the A-Z month listed next to their phylogenetic position. Living species in plain text, fossils in italics. Gross morphology in the convergent evolution of representative true crabs (Brachyura), porcelain crabs (Porcellanidae), hairystone crabs (Lomisidae), and king crabs (Lithodoidea). Losses (open circles) observed in frog crabs (Raninoidea). Topology simplified from our previous papers.
February 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
jopabinia.bsky.social
Friday the 13th = how about a crab and carcinization AMA?*

I should be working on job applications, so ask about crabs instead!

🧪🦑🦀

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Figure 2 from Wolfe et al 2021. Gross morphology in the convergent evolution of representative true crabs (Brachyura), porcelain crabs (Porcellanidae), hairy stone crabs (Lomisidae), and king crabs (Lithodoidea). Losses (open circles) observed in frog crabs (Raninoidea). Topology simplified from several papers. Body plan features are assumed to be present in the common ancestor of each marked lineage but may vary considerably within each group. Photo credits: (A, N) Ondřej Radosta; (B, D, H, I) Tin- Yam Chan; (C, E, G, K, M) Arthur Anker; (F) Ling-Kuang Tseng; (J) Michael Marmach; (L) Darryl Felder
September 13, 2024 at 12:56 PM
jopabinia.bsky.social
#InsertAnInvert2024 WHO ARE IN THE FALSE CRABS. The Anomura, on the right side, include:

- squat lobsters (contains porcelain crabs)
- more squat lobsters (contains Lomis, yeti crabs)
- mole crabs
- hermit crabs (contains king crabs, coconut crabs)
🦀🦑🧪

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Gross morphology in the convergent evolution of representative true crabs (Brachyura), porcelain crabs (Porcellanidae), hairy stone crabs (Lomisidae), and king crabs (Lithodoidea). Losses (open circles) observed in frog crabs (Raninoidea). Topology simplified from our previous papers. Body plan features are assumed to be present in the common ancestor of each marked lineage but may vary considerably within each group. Photo credits: (A, N) Ondřej Radosta; (B, D, H, I) Tin- Yam Chan; (C, E, G, K, M) Arthur Anker; (F) Ling-Kuang Tseng; (J) Michael Marmach; (L) Darryl Felder
May 15, 2024 at 1:39 PM
jopabinia.bsky.social
In honor of CRAB DAY, what else could I post about but carcinization! 🧪

I am working (on crabs) but will try to answer science questions today and this evening!

& read all about the true story of carcinization in our paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bies.202100020
Figure 2 from Wolfe et al 2021. Gross morphology in the convergent evolution of representative true crabs (Brachyura), porcelain crabs (Porcellanidae), hairy stone crabs (Lomisidae), and king crabs (Lithodoidea). Losses (open circles) observed in frog crabs (Raninoidea). Topology simplified from several papers. Body plan features are assumed to be present in the common ancestor of each marked lineage but may vary considerably within each group. Photo credits: (A, N) Ondřej Radosta; (B, D, H, I) Tin- Yam Chan; (C, E, G, K, M) Arthur Anker; (F) Ling-Kuang Tseng; (J) Michael Marmach; (L) Darryl Felder
June 22, 2023 at 3:22 PM
pgtwitter.bsky.social
(　･∀･)つ〃∩ へぇ～へぇ～へぇ～

ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%...
"カニダマシ科 (Porcellanidae) は、甲殻類の1群。カニに似た姿をしているが、ヤドカリの仲間である。 "
カニダマシ科 - Wikipedia
ja.wikipedia.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
cirripedia.bsky.social
The filter feeding porcelain crabs can be exceptionally abundant, particularly these Lissoporcellana found on the reefs around the Houtman Abrolhos Islands.

#worldoceanday #fwam #wamuseumcollection #curtin #centraltafe #ysrc #museumofgeraldton #ozcrustacea #anomura #porcellanidae #biodiversity
June 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM
ssaft.com
Crabe porcelaine anémone du Chili (Allopetrolisthes spinifrons), famille des Porcellanidae, Elqui, Región de Coquimbo, Chili photographie de marceloandrsrojasgonzlez https://buff.ly/4e6dbcN
January 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
gbifmorpho.bsky.social
New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: Petrolisthes tanmayi sp. nov., a new species of the porcelain crab (Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae) from G-Plot Island, Sundarbans, India (5 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/525f60b4-9157-4afc-ab4b-4168f8843863
May 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
k-hermit.com
When I go tide pooling, I often spot Porcellanidae with their flat bodies tucked into rock crevices.
They’re so quick and drop their limbs so easily that catching one intact is quite a struggle.
September 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
phypapers.bsky.social
Petrolisthes tanmayi sp. nov., a new species of the porcelain crab (Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae) from G-Plot Island, Sundarbans, India https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41119207/
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
phypapers.bsky.social
Integrative Phylogenetic and Morphological Analyses Reveal Two New Species of Porcellanid Crabs and Resurrect Porcellanella picta Stimpson, 1858 (Decapoda: Porcellanidae) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41035941/
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 AM
phypapers.bsky.social
The complete mitochondrial genome of a rarely reported porcelain crab, Pisidia striata (Anomura, Galatheoidea, Porcellanidae), from the Chinese waters https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39991531/
February 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM