Stock Photo - Initially the sponge Suberites sp establishes on the back of a shell containing or subsequently occupied by a hairy hermit crab Pagurus cuanensis Over time the sponge covers the entire shell and continues to develop at a rate which allows the hermit crab to moult and then continue to occupy the same sponge This species of hermit crab can also exist without the sponge Hermit crab to 150 mm E Atlantic from S Africa to Norway, Mediterranean Sponges of this genera are found across the NE Atlantic from Norway to the Mediterranean

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