Hydractinia echinata - Hermit crab fur - Ruwe zeerasp

Hydractinia echinata  (Fleming, 1828)

Hermit crab fur - Ruwe zeerasp

Nearly all in association with Pagurus bernhardus (Common hermit crab - Gewone heremietkreeft)

Loch Creran, Scotland, 4-7-2017. Male specimens.

Vuilnisbelt, the Netherlands, 8-7-2020. Female specimens.

Blokkendam, the Netherlands, 5-11-2011. Specimens A.

 

Blokkendam, the Netherlands, 5-11-2011. Specimens A.

Heerenkeet - Flaauwers, the Netherlands, 12-10-2010. Male specimens.

Heerenkeet - Flaauwers, the Netherlands, 12-10-2010. 

Den Osse - Nieuwe Kerkweg, the Netherlands, 12-4-2017. Female specimens.

Goudzwaardweg, the Netherlands, 12-9-2015. Male specimens.

Zoetersbout, the Netherlands, 15-5-2017. Male and female specimens.

Gülen - Dive Resort, Norway, 6-7-2023. Specimens B.

Gülen - Dive Resort, Norway, 6-7-2023. Specimens B.

Sint-Annaland, the Netherlands, 8-4-2021. With Ammothea hilgendorfi  (Pacific brown-banded sea-spider - Zebrazeespin).

Ammothea hilgendorfi - Pacific brown-banded sea-spider - Zebrazeespin

Ammothea hilgendorfi  (Böhm, 1879)

Pacific brown-banded sea-spider - Zebrazeespin

Anna Jacobapolder, the Netherlands, 24-7-2019. In vitro photo female with eggs in her legs, length from end to end walking legs: 22 mm, 2-8-2019.

Dreischor - Gemaal, the Netherlands, 9-2-2023.

Zeelandbrug, the Netherlands, 24-6-2016. On Alcyonium digitatum (Dead man's fingers - Dodemansduim).