Hey gang, here’s one of the largest deep-sea hermit crabs (about the size of a grapefruit) I have seen to date, named Dardanus insignis, the “southern form”. The crab was living in a very light-weight fragile shell that had a big hole in the top that you can see just over his eyes. Also if your wondering what that thing is on his shell that looks like a sideways volcano, it’s a live anemone! Yeah how cool is that I ask?? If disturbed the anemone would close and just look like a big fleshy lump on his shell but seemed to open back up pretty quickly. Besides the anemone he also had live tunicates stuck to his shell and heaven only knows what else, truly one of the coolest of crabs I have seen
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