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What is this lobster?🤔👇🏼..

We get the European lobsters on our coast and they are a dark blue, these are the ones we usually find when foraging 🔵

However this variation of lobster is occasionally found by commercial fishermen in pots out on deeper reefs, it’s thought that it’s a genetic variation which naturally occurs, but is rare 😍

Lobsters seem to be made up from a mixture of red and blue pigments which is why a standard lobster appears dark blue 🦞

If the red pigment is missing it appears blue & pink just like this one! 🤯

Sometimes they can be found red or orange and this is when the blue pigment is missing! 🍊

So to find one of these lobsters in a rockpool is pretty rare! 🙏🏻

Have you ever seen one of these? 🤔