Chlidonias

camouflage crab

NZ has a number of species of camouflage or decorator crabs (family Majidae). I think this species is [i]Notomithrax minor[/i] which often transplants pieces of sponges onto its shell as camouflage rather than using bits of seaweed as most of the other species do.

Photo taken 27 August 2010
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NZ has a number of species of camouflage or decorator crabs (family Majidae). I think this species is Notomithrax minor which often transplants pieces of sponges onto its shell as camouflage rather than using bits of seaweed as most of the other species do.

Photo taken 27 August 2010
 

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