Hermit Crab (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Hermit Crab

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.

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Mark Laidre, UC Berkeley

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