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Soldier crabs of the genus Mictyris, including M. longicarpus (pictured) congregate at low tide to feed by filtering mud. As the tide rises, they bury themselves, digging in a corkscrew pattern.
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The Dungeness crab, Metacarcinus magister (formerly Cancer magister), is a species of crab that inhabits East Pacific eelgrass beds and water bottoms from Alaska's Aleutian Islands to Santa Cruz, California.
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Odontodactylus scyllarus is a large mantis shrimp native to the Indo-Pacific from Guam to East Africa.
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Nebalia bipes is a species of leptostracan crustacean, and, in 1780, the first species in the order to have been described.
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Eurydice pulchra, the speckled sea louse, is a species of isopod crustacean found in the northeast Atlantic Ocean.
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Squilla mantis is a species of spearer mantis shrimp up to 20 cm (8 in) long, which is found and fished in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Chthamalus stellatus is a barnacle found in the Atlantic Ocean from Shetland to southern Europe.
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Liocarcinus marmoreus, the marbled swimming crab, is a species of crab found in the northern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea.
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Lithodes santolla, the southern king crab or centolla is a South American species of king crab.
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Perisesarma bidens is a semiterrestrial crab from tropical Asia.
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Triops longicaudatus (left: dorsal; right: ventral) is a species of tadpole shrimp which has existed since the Triassic.
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Armadillidium vulgare is a common European pill bug, a kind of woodlouse which can roll into a ball.
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Hermit crabs, such as Clibanarius erythropus, inhabit discarded gastropod shells in order to protect their soft and vulnerable abdomen.
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Pachygrapsus marmoratus is a species of crab which lives in the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and parts of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Goose barnacles (order Pedunculata), such as these Lepas anatifera, are filter-feeding crustaceans that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the intertidal zone.
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The hermit crab Dardanus calidus can grow to a length of 12 centimetres (4.7 in), and protects itself with a large gastropod shell, which it often decorates with one or more sea anemones of the genus Calliactis.
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Periclimenes imperator (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) is a species of shrimp with a wide distribution across the Indo-Pacific that lives commensally on a number of hosts, including the sea slug Hexabranchus.
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The Sally Lightfoot crab, Grapsus grapsus, sits on volcanic rocks on the Galápagos Islands.
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Nototropis falcatus (formerly Atylus falcatus) is a species of amphipod from sandy bottoms in the North Atlantic and North Sea.
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Ocypode cursor is a species of ghost crab that lives on sandy beaches in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.