Paguritas, a very small crab

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Submitted by thelning   
Date: 2010-07-16
Video by: Tony Thelning
Video ID: 2512

Paguritas is a small yellow crab about 5-7mm long and lives in corals. Many divers never see them as they are too small and as soon as a diver Comes close to them, they disappear. They feed with barnacle like feeders from food passing by their coral colony where 1000s live.

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