Unknown hitchiker - id?

[Safir]

spotted this on a colony of tube coral today.. this pcture is about the best look i could ge at it, as it was pretty far back in teh rockwork... it's body was shaped a little like an arrow crab, but looked pretty hairy, and had a bunch of legs, all splayed "back" in the same direction.... sorry i can't hep much, but i couldn't get a very good look at it even without the camera...

 

[LeslieH]

Yes, it's a crab, probably not a xanthid, but the picture isn't good enough to tell exactly what it is. If you catch it take a picture of it in a dish (fully submerged in water) for us.

 

[charlesr1958]

That profile looks awfull familiar and would as a best first guess say that its a "cling" crab, I have one just like it in my tank and so far, it has done nothing but scrape the rocks for tidbits of algae/food with its unique claw design.

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