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Soft Coral Crab

Hoplophrys oatesii

Photo by AlbertKang
Published on Project Noah
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This Soft Coral Crabs lives exclusively on the Soft Corals, which they are very well camouflaged in. And usually the bigger ones may cut and collects the Soft Corals to decorate their carapace as shown in this picture.

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