No worries RAH, for some unknown reason some readers of this forum think that I would post altered photos to this site. I can't imagine where they would get that idea.

The strange thing is I have read a multitude of articles on this new species and haven't found one that indicated how the mud bug was measured.

The crayfish/lobster standard for measuring is to measure the length of the carapace - from a point between the eyes back to the end of the main shell before the tail segments.

The more I think about it though I doubt that is how it was measured though because that would be one huge crayfish!

Strange that none of the articles mention how the bugger was measured though.

They could of at least taken a photo of the crayfish next to a ruler.

And no not the Queen of England type of ruler.

JHAP
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