Hairy Hermit Crab

Pagurus cuanensis

• Group: Crab

A small hermit crab covered in fine hairs, it shelters its soft abdomen inside an empty snail shell and trades up as it grows. Like its relatives it scavenges and grazes across the seabed, harmless to anything its own size.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Paguridae › Pagurus

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 107235.