Hairy yellow hermit crab (Aniculus maximus), the third and fourth pairs of legs are reduced to small hooks to act as anchors inside the shell the crab

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Hairy yellow hermit crab (Aniculus maximus), the third and fourth pairs of legs are reduced to small hooks to act as anchors inside the shell the crab has chosen as home. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

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Photo credit: © Mark Spencer/AUSCAPE / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: aniculus, animal, animals, auscape, chela, crab, crustacean, decapoda, diogenidae, enlarged, fauna, hermit, invertebrate, left, left-handed, life, malacostraca, marine, mark, sea, spencer, underwater, wildlife