shell-less bodies. But one group of hermit crabs uses a cozier type of protection: a sea anemone. These anemone-wearing hermit crabs are collectively known as “blanket hermit crabs” for the ...

There are at least 35 other symbiotic sea anemone species known to science that live on the shells of hermit crabs. This newest species is the fifth of its genus but the first found in Japanese ...

Unlike most hermit crabs, the blanket-hermit crab does not use empty shells for protection, and instead lives symbiotically with a sea anemone. The crab uses the anemone to cover its soft abdomen ...

They “protect themselves from predators by using toxic algae or stinging sea anemones,” which ... even double up by attaching an anemone to their snail shell. If they move to a new shell ...

producing crowded areas of sea anemones among the rocks, eel grass and scattered sea shells along Tomales Bay’s rugged beaches. The sea anemones also belong to a family of anemones that host ...

Most hermit crabs live in shells not of their own making ... and unlike more commonly-known sea anemones live in colonies rather than singly. The crab resides within a collection of zoanthids ...

There are thousands of different species of sea anemones in the ocean with some living as far deep as 32,000 feet. Anemones are marine invertebrates that are closely related to jellyfish.

Little is known about Iosactis vagabunda, a tentacled deep-sea anemone that resides on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, a seabed off the coast of Ireland. But thanks to cameras built to withstand the ...