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Crustacean?
Coastal Ocean, Low Tide
Pulled out of a Conch Shell found on Amelia Island, FL beach while looking for Flounder
Spotted on Jul 17, 2011
Submitted on Jul 18, 2011
8 Comments
Interesting. Looks like the posterior end of a decapod crustacean based on the 4th and 6th photos. See the segmented legs.This also includes hermit crabs of course, and given where you found it...See a "naked" hermit crab here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paguru.... Whatevr it is it should be moved to arthropods, I think.
Can be a kind of Prawn.
Looks like a very injured hermitcrab to me, it still has one pair of legs by the looks of it?
No legs, or anywhere where they looked attached, also if you see the under belly its almost like a slug, no exoskeleton
If it is a hermit crab it's missing its legs and facial parts.
Could it be a hermit crab and its now without its shell?
About 3 inches long and about 3/4 to an inch wide/round
weird.. it is hard to get an idea of scale. how big was it?