New Zealand Seashore

DSC_6217 Peron's seaweed crab (Notomithrax peronii) a large, slender legged, triangular bodied crab, which removes living seaweed from rocks and attaches them to hooked hairs on its back, where the weed continues to grow as an effective camouflage. Otago Harbour *

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DSC_6217 Peron's seaweed crab (Notomithrax peronii) a large, slender legged, triangular bodied crab, which removes living seaweed from rocks and attaches them to hooked hairs on its back, where the weed continues to grow as an effective camouflage. Otago Harbour *

Peron's Decorator crab DSC 6217 Notomithrax peronii camouflage seaweed Otago Harbour seaweed crab papaka huna