Sea anemone Calliactis polypus and hermit crab Dardanus pedunculatus

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Shot Date: 2004/05/07
Shot Location: Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University

species
Dardanus pedunculatus

Key Words
none

Tetsuya Kato
2005/02/27 submitted

Animalia >Arthropoda >Malacostraca >Decapoda >Diogenidae >Dardanus >

The sea anemone Calliactis polypus and the hermit crab Dardanus pedunculatus are believed to live symbiotically. When the hermit crab finds a colony of the sea anemone, it tries to put the anemone on its shell. The hermit crab in the video already had four colonies of sea anemones (not all are shown) but was still trying to scrape a new colony off the rock surface.

(Data No.momo050224dp01b)

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