This weird guy is about 6.5 mm long.
On March 8, 1999 I
received an email from Tony Field saying that this is "a rock
lobster larva, in fact the phyllosoma of Palinurus".
Specimen collected during the 1996/1997 research cruises to the coastal waters of Barbados.
Microscope-mounted Nikon camera, Kodakchrome film.