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unidentified hermit crabs

these are really neat little hermit crabs which live inside empty tubeworm tubes rather than in empty snail shells; I have no idea which species they are. You can also see the feathery heads of a few tubeworms in some of the other tubes, and bryozoans growing over the empty shells at the top.

Photo taken 27 August 2010
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these are really neat little hermit crabs which live inside empty tubeworm tubes rather than in empty snail shells; I have no idea which species they are. You can also see the feathery heads of a few tubeworms in some of the other tubes, and bryozoans growing over the empty shells at the top.

Photo taken 27 August 2010
 
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Google it :)
They are these fascinating creatures that has their homes in coral! (probably they move into the holes of corals I don't know that much)
 
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RhinoIguana154 said:
Google it :)
They are these fascinating creatures that has their homes in coral! (probably they move into the holes of corals I don't know that much)
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You realize you just told a moderator and one of the most skilled wildlife experts on the site to just "google it?"

Just checking...
 
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RhinoIguana154 said:
Google it :)
They are these fascinating creatures that has their homes in coral! (probably they move into the holes of corals I don't know that much)
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if you mean Paguritta then yes they probably are in that genus but I don't know which species they are. These are not tropical by the way, they are native to New Zealand.
 

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