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New species of marine hermit crab with candy stripes
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:34 am
by pixellator
New Scientist has published a story about a new type of hermit crab. They have photos at this link. This crab is dressed to impress in candy-striper legs, so they are calling it the Candy Striped Hermit Crab.
New hermit crab has candy-stick legs and a giant spoon-like claw
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... -CANDYCRAB
They think it might clean the Morae eel.
Re: New species of marine hermit crab with candy stripes
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 1:06 pm
by GotButterflies
Very beautiful and cool! Hopefully they are left in the wild, and not caught for fishtanks...
Re: New species of marine hermit crab with candy stripes
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 1:15 pm
by NLindsey921
Very pretty
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Re: New species of marine hermit crab with candy stripes
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 10:41 am
by pixellator
It IS very pretty, and hard to find as well. I second that opinion that it should be left in the wild, not be bred for fishtanks.
Re: New species of marine hermit crab with candy stripes
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 3:47 am
by aussieJJDude
I love it when a 'new species' come to light!
Re: New species of marine hermit crab with candy stripes
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 10:28 pm
by shanedaman112
aussieJJDude wrote:
I love it when a 'new species' come to light!
I love it beyond explanation!! Why? I dunno. It's just awesome!
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Re: New species of marine hermit crab with candy stripes
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 7:19 am
by Artistmom81
So pretty!
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Re: New species of marine hermit crab with candy stripes
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 1:54 pm
by Big Birgus
Very cool indeed. Wonder why it only has the one claw?
Re: New species of marine hermit crab with candy stripes
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 3:29 am
by aussieJJDude
Big Birgus wrote:Very cool indeed. Wonder why it only has the one claw?
It has two, zoom in and you see it be similar to our HC with having a small pincher...