Two-spined decorator crab - Hyastenus bispinosus

The decorator crab, Hyastenus bispinosus, lives among the fronds of a very potent stinging hydroid and protects itself by attaching several branches of the hydroid to its forked rostrum (beak spines). The crab itself was around 1/2 inch (12mm).

8 May 2015

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