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Field Notes

Description:

Crustacean?

Habitat:

Coastal Ocean, Low Tide

Notes:

Pulled out of a Conch Shell found on Amelia Island, FL beach while looking for Flounder

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (8)
Scott Frazier
Interesting. Looks like the posterior end of a decapod crustacean based on the 4th and 6th photos. See the segmented legs.This also includes hermit crabs of course, and given where you found it...See a "naked" hermit crab here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pagurus_bernhardus_.JPG. Whatevr it is it should be moved to arthropods, I think.
Ashish
Can be a kind of Prawn.
Elsa
Looks like a very injured hermitcrab to me, it still has one pair of legs by the looks of it?
Patrick McClintock
No legs, or anywhere where they looked attached, also if you see the under belly its almost like a slug, no exoskeleton
auntnance123
If it is a hermit crab it's missing its legs and facial parts.
MickGrant
Could it be a hermit crab and its now without its shell?
BradfordW.Bebb
weird.. it is hard to get an idea of scale. how big was it?
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PublishedJuly 18, 2011

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