These bright blue marine crabs are endemic to Bermuda and they're pretty awesome if you ask me. I picked them up on a snorkel collection trip for one of my classes. These crabs are sexually dimorphic in shell selection, the guys use portable shells while the girls stay in tubes made by marine worms. Here's one running around on the lab bench...
more info on these awesome critters here http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/Marine ... rilli.html
Verrilli's hermit crabs
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