those look like scorpions!jorgie - 6-24-2009 at 06:17 AM
what size ???Pacifico - 6-24-2009 at 06:18 AM
Where did you find those?Russ - 6-24-2009 at 06:38 AM
These are huge almost an inch long! found while cleaning hacha scollops. Some kind
of cleaner shrimp I suspect.
Hook - 6-24-2009 at 07:14 AM
Look like they would be good huachinango bait, Russ. Send em back down with a hook and line.Russ - 6-24-2009 at 07:22 AM
OOPS my dog eat them
Crabs
tehag - 6-24-2009 at 07:31 AM
A pair is almost always present in an adult callo de hacha.Skipjack Joe - 6-24-2009 at 07:43 AM
Thanks for showing these. I've never seen anything like it in baja.
They look like crawdads except that they're translucent. Pretty things.
Were they bottom dwellers or suspended in water like those tuna crabs?Woooosh - 6-24-2009 at 08:09 AM
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Originally posted by Russ
OOPS my dog eat them
mine waited 'til he was bigger
tripledigitken - 6-24-2009 at 08:23 AM
Agree with Igor look like Mud Bugs. Break out the creole seasoning!Russ - 6-24-2009 at 08:36 AM
Woooosh BooJumMan - 6-24-2009 at 08:59 AM
Heh, I could have sworn the last time at Puerto Nuevo, they were Maine lobsters! tripledigitken - 6-24-2009 at 09:03 AM
Reminds me of a promonitional billboard in the Rosarito Area I saw last year with a huge photo of a Lobster .............a Maine Lobster!
Fire that advertizing firm.
Von - 6-24-2009 at 09:28 AM
Ive seen them inside Black mussles, only the real big ones carry them;
once in a while anybody else seen them in black mussles?Skipjack Joe - 6-24-2009 at 12:39 PM
Makes sense, Von. A lot of symbiotic crustaceans that live inside others lose much of their pigmentation. Sometimes we dig up clams here and find a
pale little crab living together with it.Cypress - 6-24-2009 at 01:13 PM
An inch long? Jeez! Baja is raising midget crawdads!toneart - 6-24-2009 at 01:15 PM
Can they survive outside their host? If so, I wonder what they would grow into. So, what species are they? Did they hitchhike from another area in an
earlier time? It would appear that they are firmly established in The Sea of Cortez.BajaBruno - 6-24-2009 at 02:39 PM
Maybe Comitan can take a photo over to the marine biology school (UABCS, maybe?) near him. They should know.Bajahowodd - 6-24-2009 at 02:51 PM
And who considers them edible? Probably just me, but I am not drawn to eat anything exoskeletal.Steve&Debby - 6-25-2009 at 09:42 PM
We got scallops at Santispec that had those in them,I thought they were baby lobsters.
The first one I opened had one in it,all I could think of was Alien when the critter popped out of the belly of that guy.
almost an inch long! found while cleaning hacha scollops. Some kind
of cleaner shrimp I suspect.
