check this western rock lobster out!
Submitted by m.jamo on Fri, 2015-02-13 19:58
Has anyone ever seen a lobster like this. Was told it was caught in Jurien.
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Dale
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Umm, it looks ok to me. Just a little 2 toned.
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didnt quite make it to deep
didnt quite make it to deep water
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Can't say that
Can't say I've seen one like that before.
RobertMc
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with a perfect straight line
with a perfect straight line like that id say its been photo shopped
tim-o
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Rare mutation
http://m.cbncompass.ca/News/Local/2013-07-17/article-3318410/Strange-catch/1
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I have seen a few like that
I have seen a few like that over my years as a crayfisherman--but certainly not common.
tangles
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yeah
seen a cpl. I think we had one on the laurel didnt we ralph!
I personally think they are from horrocks but just sayn!!
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..yeah, swampies :-):-)
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I tend to agree with
I tend to agree with Gilly.
He was halfway through a white run when he was caught....either that or there wasnt enough water in the pot.
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It's half blind so dark side
It's half blind so dark side blind light side blending in to surrounds
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Sun tanned lol
Sun tanned lol
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From a USA site , so he was born that way!
Most lobsters are colored a mottled dark greenish brown. In rare cases, a lobster of a different color (colormorph) appears. Exotic lobsters in shades of blue, white, yellow, black, and red have been reported from time to time since the earliest lobster harvests. Perhaps the most unusual colormorphs are the "calico" lobsters appearing as marbled black and orange/yellow; or "half-and-half" lobsters with a line straight down their backs where two colors meet.
Calicos and half-and-halfs are hatched that way and they stay that way (until cooked!) because the basic color pattern in lobster shells is inherited just like the color of hair in humans and other mammals.
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Scam
Looks like a scam to me. I reckon its left side is slightly longer than its right. Two different crays
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I agree mate definately
I agree mate definately differ in sizes and it's too straight of a line down the middle
quadfisher
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Ha ha curse you dissbelievers , read my post again!
Genitic anomoly, or half and half.
but then again , its head looks munted, your call.
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not fake
its not fake have seem em on deck. Caught cpl out off marshalls bank aswell. Its most likely just a pigment thing. As ranmar said n he was my boss for 4 years n a crayfisherman for a longtime they do pop up from time yo time just like ones w extra legs or extra feelers!
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looks half baked
looks half baked
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Mosaicism or chimera
Hard to tell by just looking at it but this is a cray with either a chimeric or mosaic genetic mutation. It occurs when animals have more than one genetically distinct population of cells.
Mosaicism is relatively common in nature (many cats and dogs specifically bred for coat patterns) so my bet would be that this is a chimeric cray. Chimeras are very rare in nature! They occur when two or more fertilised eggs fuse together so you essentially get genetic material from up to 4 individuals.
There are some pretty cool photos going around of chimeric animals and quite a famous cat that has a perfect colour split like this cray. One side of its face is black and the other is brown.
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Re-thinking this i find it
Re-thinking this i find it hard to workout how a berried or tarspot female could swap fertilised eggs with another female which would be neccessary to form a chimera... so more likely it has mosaicism in which case quadfisher is right its a calico.
Do you know if this was a female cray because that would more likely make it a mosaic?