This is a collection of high-detail pixel art, top-down .PNG assets for a horseshoe crab. Four variants are included: Standard, w/ barnacle marks, covered in seaweed, and with both textures.

Full images for each body are included, but there are also separated bodyparts. Each body is composed of a carapace, a lower segment, a tail, and a mask layer for the eyes. The isolated seaweed and barnacle overlays are provided as well. The source file is also included, for a total of 18 files.

These assets more closely resemble Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, or the Mangrove Horseshoe Crab.

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Updated a little while after release to make all carapace layers have eyes by default, as most use cases won't need the immobile eyes to be separated on a different layer. You can still find the eyeless carapace in the source file. 2 downloads before counter reset.

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To see more of my work and socials or to commission something, here is my list of links: https://croomfolk.carrd.co/

This release is a part of OpenTaxa, a project to create libre depictions of our planet's species: https://opentaxa.miraheze.org

Reference image by Rachel Oh: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horseshoe_crab_eyes.jpg licensed as CC-BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Screaming Brain Studios' CC0 Noise Texture Pack was used to create the seaweed textures: https://opengameart.org/content/noise-texture-pack

Created with Krita.