Reposted by 🏳️🌈🌸Just a gay little goth foxdeer🦊

This tiny crab captured by Pedro Valencia of Blackwater Cozumel has me learning about crab life-cycles. Prepare for some vocabulary (& errors)!
This is a swimming stage called a 'megalopa'. The furious tail structures moving a mile a minute are 'pleopods' or swimmerets.
(📷: pedrovalenciam on IG)