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Spotting

Description:

It a Crab that lives on a shell.

Habitat:

The live on the beach.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Caribbean hermit crab
Coenobita clypeatus Caribbean hermit crab - Wikipedia


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2 Comments

LivanEscudero
LivanEscudero 4 years ago

They are also known as Purple Pincher in the pet trade. By the way the shells these guys are using are those of Peanut snail (Cerion sp.)

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 10 years ago

Moved to Arthropods :-)

AndreaOrtega
Spotted by
AndreaOrtega

Curaçao, Netherlands

Spotted on Nov 3, 2012
Submitted on Nov 3, 2012

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