Giant Hermit Crab

biovisual:

Giant Hermit Crab (Petrochirus diogenes)
Inhabiting an ~300 mm [~12 inch] Florida Horse Conch (Triplofusus giganteus) shell
SOURCE:  EOLspecies // Photographer: Joel Wooster @ www.jaxshells.org
Lower image, also by Joel Wooster, taken at the Marine Discovery Center in New Smyrna Beach, Florida
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     Decapoda >  Petrochirus diogenes (Linnaeus, 1758)