#diacanthurus

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#1964 - Diacanthurus rubricatus

photo by @purrdence​ 

A large Pagurid hermit crab, endemic to most of the coastlines of New Zealand. I don’t have much other information on them, unfortunately. Often found with anemones living on the shell, and a small copepod Kioloaria tapui that lives in the tip of the shell, discovered in 1982.  ‘tapui’, means ‘close friend'.