Red-Spotted Guard Crab

Trapezia tigrina

• Group: Crab
• Typical depth: 1–90 m

A small guard crab that lives only on cauliflower coral, this brightly marked species shelters among the branches of a single colony. In return for that home it drives off coral eating predators, a tenant that earns its keep.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Trapeziidae › Trapezia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 210186.