New Zealand Seashore
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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 *
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