Contact: Robert Sanders
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University of California - Berkeley
Caption: The terrestrial hermit crab Coenobita compressus lives inside a discarded snail shell and forages for plants and carrion along the Pacific coast from Mexico to Peru.
Credit: Mark Laidre, UC Berkeley
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