Image: Bryolith (Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania)

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Description: Mauritanian bryoliths are impressive examples of a mutualistic symbiosis between a hermit crab and encrusting bryozoans. Providing a cirumrotatory growth the bryozoan colony (Acanthodesia commensale) offers the crab (Pseudopagurus granulimanus) a helicospiral-tubular extension of its living chamber that once was situated within an initial gastropod shell.
Title: Bryolith (Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania)
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Author: Andre Klicpera
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