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New-found crab species carries its own coral home
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Saturday, 23 September, 2017
Japan-based researchers have discovered a new species of hermit crab that shelters in solitary corals and drags it around the seafloor. Researchers describe that most crabs move from shell to shell to find a good fit, but the corals these hermit crabs live in grow with them, creating a stable symbiotic relationship.
read more at PLoS Medicine