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Title: Spider Crab Under Anemone. West Sussex, UK.
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Leach's spider crab (Inachus phalangium) shetlers from the current beneath a snakelocks anemone (Anemonia viridis). These crabs are often found living commensally with these anemones. The orange colour of the crab comes from sponges that the crab has attached to hooks on its exoskeleton, to form a living camouflage. Selsey, West Sussex, England, British Isles. English Channel.
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- Anomura
- Arthropods: Arthropoda
- British Isles
- Crustaceans: Crustacea
- Decapods: Decapoda
- Great Britain
- Invertebrates
- Leach's spider crab: Inachus phalangium
- macro
- Malacostraceans: Malacostracea
- marine
- Marine Life
- muck dive
- muck diving
- Selsey
- snakelocks anemone: Anemonia viridis
- Spider Crabs: Decorator Crabs: Majidae
- temperate
- UK
- United Kingdom
- West Sussex
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