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Title: Hermit Crab. Scotland, UK
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A wide angle macro portrait of a common hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus) whose borrowed mollusc shell home is covered in the hydroid (Hydractinia echinata). This species of hydroid lives only on the shells of hermit crabs. Photographed in a sea loch in spring (April). Loch Long, Scotland, British Isles.
- Alex Mustard/2020VISION
- British Isles
- common hermit crab: Pagurus bernhardus
- Great Britain
- Loch Long
- macro
- muck dive
- muck diving
- Scotland
- temperate
- UK
- United Kingdom
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