Can you see the face in the pattern on this hitchhiker crab’s shell?

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Only time I ever saw this particular kind of crab with that Darth Maul/Sinistar looking kind of face on the shell
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kinda cool... ;)
 
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I don’t see it.
Start with the circle at bottom middle as the mouth doing a Ric Flair “Wooooo!”. The two lines like a V as the nose and the eyes the two dots near the top.
 

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seems to be of the xanthidae family which are mostly not reef safe, would put it in the sump though as they are pretty cool looking anyway.
 

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Only time I ever saw this particular kind of crab with that Darth Maul/Sinistar looking kind of face on the shell
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That looks really cool. It almost looks like a face yelling or something.
 

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Yeah, looks like it's probably an Atergatis species, possibly A. floridus (which is highly variable in coloration), but I don't know for sure.

Regardless, not a reef-safe crab.
 

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