
作者:klukoff
來源:iNaturalist
授權:CC BY 4.0
#1373
瘤狀扁異蟹
Wire Coral Crab
Xenocarcinus tuberculatus
- 分類
- 微距生物 Macro / Critters
- 最大體長
- 2 公分
- 危險度
- 0 / 5
- 稀有度
- Rare
- 棲息深度
- 10–60 公尺
- 食性
- 珊瑚黏液 / 浮游生物

作者:klukoff
來源:iNaturalist
授權:CC BY 4.0
#1373
Wire Coral Crab
Xenocarcinus tuberculatus
把自己拉長成一根鐵絲,貼在鞭珊瑚上一動不動,是海底最敬業的偽裝大師。
Stretches itself into a piece of wire and clings motionless to a whip coral: the sea's most dedicated camouflage artist.
殼長只有約 2 公分,細長的額角和背上的瘤狀突起,跟寄主珊瑚的珊瑚蟲一個樣。牠必須依附鞭珊瑚等珊瑚生活,體色也跟寄主相近。1847 年由 White 命名。
About 2 cm long, with a slender rostrum and body tubercles that mimic the host coral's polyps. It lives obligately on wire and whip corals, matching their colour. Described by White in 1847; the genus has seven species.