Image of the Day: You, My Green-Eyed Hermit

Green-eyed hermit crab (Paragiopagurus atkinsonae)

JANNES LANDSCHOFF

The aptly named green-eyed hermit crab (Paragiopagurus atkinsonae) was discovered while scientists were surveying shallow waters near the West Coast of South Africa.

According to a news release, “[t]he green-eyed hermit crab measures merely 70 mm in length and sports a coloration of mottled orange nuanced with cream to white.”

See J. Landschoff, R. Lemaitre, “Differentiation of three common deep-water hermit crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Parapaguridae) from the South African demersal abundance surveys, including the ...