Blue, Green and Split Colored-Lobsters

This photograph was taken by H. A. Frank at Mystic Marine Life Aquarium, Mystic, Connecticut on July 14, 2001.

This photograph was taken by H. A. Frank at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Brewster, Massachusetts on October 11, 2001.

These are photos provided by friends and colleagues. If anyone can explain to me the mechanism by which this split coloration occurs, I would greatly appreciate it. E-mail me at: harry.frank@uconn.edu