Redleg Calcinus

Calcinus laurentae

• Group: Other

A hermit crab that lives below the intertidal from about six metres down, sheltering among branching corals. Like its kin it carries a borrowed snail shell, swapping up to a larger one as it grows.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Diogenidae › Calcinus

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 367445.