West Coast gallery of intertidal life in singapore

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Hermit crab Diogenes sp. Family Diogenidae Hermit crabs need to live inside abandoned snail shells to protec their soft abdomen. This is why you shouldn't take any shells from a beach. A hermit crab might need one.

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