Science Art: Evibacus princeps, 2019

Scientific illustration of a spiny lobster nymph dyed blue-green for the microscope., all legs and bubble-body and eyes (or tails?) on long stalks.
Scientific illustration of a spiny lobster nymph dyed blue-green for the microscope., all legs and bubble-body and eyes (or tails?) on long stalks.

It’s a wickle baby slipper lobster!

That color came from it being prepared on a slide so it could be examined under a microscope. The legs and antenna are all its own. Evibacus princeps also gets called a “shield fan lobster.”

You can find it (and a lot more) in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History collection, but I first noticed it in the Smithsonian Open Access collection of public domain imagery.