Our Cavipes are actually Violas

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:32 pm

That is NOT an E! Wrong color.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:32 pm

OK, I am a born skeptic! However, I am coming around to the idea that I have a c. violascens, not a c. cavipes. My crab in question is "Miss September" in the 2006 calendar on Cafe Press. Here is another shot of "Fawn":

I have a chocolate brown c. compressus, but the eyes of *Kathy*'s crab do not look like an E, nor do the base of the antennae. Kathy, can you give us some different angles of that dark brown crab? Eye stalks and left rear walking leg, for example?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:46 pm

My biggest E is very dark but I have never seen an E that dark. That one must have been getting a lot of carotene I guess.

He got lighter but this is an old pic before he molted.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:31 pm

I think Kathy's brown boy is a Cavi, the thick orange anetenna bases, the choc brown color.

I think ckbythesea, you may have a Viola, with the dark eyes and the bright red middle antennas (which I know I'm not referring to correctly). JMO.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:01 am

ckbythesea wrote:
I have a chocolate brown c. compressus, but the eyes of *Kathy*'s crab do not look like an E, nor do the base of the antennae. Kathy, can you give us some different angles of that dark brown crab? Eye stalks and left rear walking leg, for example?

Scarlett is certainly NOT an E!

Whatever she is, it is definately not an E!

I really must confess. BOTH pictures are of the SAME crab! The "purple" shot is shortly after her last molt. She came up a very bright lavendar color, but soon turned back to brownish-red. Her BP is a classic stiped Cav, and she does have firey-red antenas.

Here are a few more pics of Scarlett at various angles:

HERMEZ · Post by **HERMEZ** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:09 am

Who would have thought!

I think you have a Viola!!!!!

annopia · Post by **annopia** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:20 am

definatly not an E...I'm no expert on the more rare/exotic crabs, but Scarlett's eyes are definatly round, not elongated like an E's.

Caroline

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:46 pm

That's not nice to trick us like that.

Mokulele_Hawai'i · Post by **Mokulele_Hawai'i** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:44 pm

*Kathy* wrote:

Your crab is definitely a Coenobita violascens !
This is one of my violet who has similar color & shell:

My other violets:

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:02 pm

that's it! I need to win the lottery and take a trip to the States so I can buy some beautiful crabs like those! Actually I just need a new job

BAB · Post by **BAB** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:37 am

SNEAKY!!

Did you post the same crab pix on purpose? Or was it a whoops moment?

Very interesting though.

I can see how the crab owners who do not have E's would consider that an E though. Hehe... It's like me, before I ever SAW a real Ruggie I was always getting E's and Ruggie's confused. Doesn't mean I still can't get them confused now.

BEAUTIFUL crabs though. All of you!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:20 pm

BAB wrote:SNEAKY!!

Did you post the same crab pix on purpose? Or was it a whoops moment?

Very interesting though.

I can see how the crab owners who do not have E's would consider that an E though. Hehe... It's like me, before I ever SAW a real Ruggie I was always getting E's and Ruggie's confused. Doesn't mean I still can't get them confused now.

BEAUTIFUL crabs though. All of you!

Okay, I confess....I did it on purpose!

The reason? After I read this post, I was fairly sure that Scarlett was a Viola ~ Especially since she had come up from that molt, well, PURPLE! I never new that such a species exsisted, but I do remember reading that there is a theory that very few, if any, TRUE Cavs make it to the USA.

SOOOOOOOOOOO.....when will there be a seperate catagory for them in the crab caresheets & species ID sections??? it seems that most of us have Violas.....not Cavs!

tonycoenobita · Post by **tonycoenobita** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:46 pm

It is because the photo are too small for me to see the characteristic of both of them.......
may be i am wrong

BAB · Post by **BAB** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:47 pm

tonycoenobita wrote:It is because the photo are too small for me to see the characteristic of both of them.......
may be i am wrong

It's okay Tony. It's VERY hard to ID crabs by photo's alone.

I've made tons of mistakes on crab ID's and shell ID's!! Sometimes it's ridiculous!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:58 pm

Now I'm back to wondering if Coco is a Viola, she looks a lot like Scarlett's pic pre-molt.

I think she might be molting now, I haven't seen her in about a week and she's missing one leg.