Green-eyed hermit crab (Paragiopagurus atkinsonae)
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 description of a new species of Paragiopagurus Lemaitre, 1996,” ZooKeys, doi:10.3897/zookeys.676.12987, 2017.
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