{"id":4277,"date":"2011-05-18T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2011-05-18T09:37:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:37:30","slug":"squat-lobster-caviar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/05\/18\/squat-lobster-caviar\/","title":{"rendered":"Squat Lobster Caviar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4278\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/squat-lobster-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4278\" title=\"squat lobster 1\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/squat-lobster-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/squat-lobster-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/squat-lobster-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>by <a title=\"Erin\u00a0Loury\" href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/students\/erin-loury\/\">Erin Loury<\/a>, Ichthyology Lab<\/p>\n<p>This bright white crustacean is a squat lobster pulled from the deep during a government fishing survey in southern California.\u00a0 Squat lobsters aren&#8217;t actually lobsters at all (they&#8217;re more closely related to porcelain crabs and hermit crabs), and are much smaller than lobsters (note my finger in the photo below).\u00a0 Their tucked-under abdomens and extended claws always make me imagine them doing some kind of yoga pose.\u00a0 Flipping this one over indicated that it (or rather, <em>she<\/em>!) was closely guarding a clutch of bright red eggs.\u00a0 Holding them close is probably a good idea \u2013 they look like they&#8217;d make a tasty snack for some predator swimming by!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4279\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/squat-lobster-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4279\" title=\"squat lobster 2\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/squat-lobster-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/squat-lobster-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/squat-lobster-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clearly this one is a female! (photo: E. Loury)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Erin Loury, Ichthyology Lab This bright white crustacean is a squat lobster pulled from the deep during a government fishing survey in southern California.\u00a0 Squat lobsters aren&#8217;t actually lobsters at all (they&#8217;re more closely related to porcelain crabs and hermit crabs), and are much smaller than lobsters (note my finger in the photo below).\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-invertebrates"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}