June 23rd, 2021 at 2:30PM

platycryptus:

Giant hermit crab (Petrochirus diogenes)

This specimen is relatively small. P. diogenes is the world’s second-largest hermit crab species, growing large enough to inhabit a full sized queen conch shell and beaten only by the terrestrial coconut crab, which is a hermit crab that stops using shells when it matures.

I can only assume that the the “diogenes” in its name comes from some parallel drawn between the hermit crab’s shell and the philosopher’s habit of sleeping in a large jar.

(Florida, 2/27/21)

(via sabertoothwalrus)

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    Giant hermit crab (Petrochirus diogenes)...This specimen is relatively small. P. diogenes...
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