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This galatheid crab, commonly known as a squat lobster, was brought aboard theR/V SEWARD JOHNSON. from 1400 feet. It was sitting within a mass of Lopheliacoral which grows in massive reefs in the dark, cold waters off the coast ofSouth Carolina. (Image credit: Islands in the Stream Expedition 2002. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration | Bruce Moravchik)