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Title: Hermit Crab. Devon, UK
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A 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. Babbacombe, Torbay, Devon, England, British Isles. English Channel. Photographed in May.
- Alex Mustard/2020VISION
- Babbacombe
- British Isles
- common hermit crab: Pagurus bernhardus
- Devon
- England
- Great Britain
- macro
- marine
- muck dive
- muck diving
- temperate
- Torbay
- UK
- United Kingdom
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