Description
An expired (freshly dead) Speckled Swimming Crab washed up by the surf onto Cocoa Beach one January morning 2018 photographed shortly after dawn. The view is frontal including eye stalks and antennae above the mouth. The main body, called cephalothorax, is speckled. The mount is the large opening in the center of the leading edge of cephalothorax. To the right and left are the arms with pincers. Scientific Name: Arenaeus cribarius.