<Tr> <Th> Voiced by </Th> <Td> Samuel E. Wright (all appearances except the Kingdom Hearts series and Disney Parks until 2008) Kevin Michael Richardson (Kingdom Hearts series) Keith Ferguson (Disney Parks) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> Jamaican </Td> </Tr> <P> Sebastian is an animated anthropomorphic crab in Disney's The Little Mermaid film franchise . He is a red crab from the Caribbean island of Jamaica and a servant of King Triton . Apart from his role in the film trilogy, Sebastian features in the animated series, in the Kingdom Hearts series of video games, and even has music albums based on him . </P> <P> The character was developed solely for the film, and is not derived from the original Hans Christian Andersen story . Early on in the writing and development of The Little Mermaid, the character that would later become Sebastian was originally an English - butler crab named Clarence; songwriter Howard Ashman proposed changing Clarence to a Jamaican Rastafarian crab and shifting the music style throughout the film to reflect this . Duncan Marjoribanks served as Sebastian's supervising animator . Sebastian is voiced by Samuel E. Wright, who auditioned for the role as though he were trying out for a stage musical . Wright could not do a Jamaican accent, so he did a Trinidadian accent during his audition, which Ashman decided to keep . His physicality impressed co-director Ron Clements, who videotaped a repeat performance in order to inspire the animators . </P>

Sebastian in the little mermaid is what animal