Candy-striped hermit crab discovered in Caribbean

Friday, January 27, 2017 - 09:01 in Biology & Nature

An underwater photographer stumbled upon a new species of hermit crab with legs and pincers striped like candy canes. The tiny creature has been scientifically named Pylopaguropsis mollymullerae after the diver's granddaughter, Molly Muller.

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