P-50 HERMIT CRAB SPONGE, - Gulf Specimen Marine Lab

It is a hardy, commensal orange and green sponge that engulfs hermit crabs or snail shells, building up layers of sponge tissue called “false shells.” When the sponge colony is small, the crab or snail moves freely around the tide flats, but when Pseudospongosorites grows too large the host becomes a trapped prisoner. Paguristes hummi, the filter-feeding hermit, or Cantharus cancellarius, the ribbed snail are the original hosts. Size: 3-6 cm.

PDF) The Epibiotic and Endolithic Species Associated with the Gastropod Shells inhabited by the Hermit Crabs Paguristes Oculatus and Pagurus Cuanensis

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Hermit Crab Sea Sponge (All Natural Hermit Crab Sponge)

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Calico crab (Hepatus epheliticus) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium. - Gulf Specimen Marine Lab

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A revision of “blanket-hermit crabs” of the genus Paguropsis Henderson, 1888, with the description of a new genus and five new species (Crustacea, Anomura, Diogenidae)

Fossil calibrations for molecular analyses and divergence time estimation for true crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura)

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