New Zealand Seashore

DSC_8475 Hairy seaweed crab (Notomithrax ursus) hand held, showing claw colour. A 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_8475 Hairy seaweed crab (Notomithrax ursus) hand held, showing claw colour. A 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 *

intertidal hairy Decorator crab DSC 8475 masking Notomithrax ursus camouflage seaweed Otago Harbour hairy seaweed crab papaka huna