dwarf teardrop crab
Pelia tumida
Classification
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Epialtidae
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Decorator crabs are crabs of several different species, belonging to the superfamily Majoidea (not all of which are decorators), that use materials from their environment to hide from, or ward off, predators. They decorate themselves by sticking mostly sedentary animals and plants to their bodies as camouflage, or if the attached organisms are noxious, to ward off predators through aposematism. History In 1889, William Bateson observed in detail the way that decorator crabs fix materials on their backs.
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Distribution
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