Covered in dense grey fur, and it carries a small anemone in each claw.
A small crab to about 3 cm, entirely covered in a dense coat of long grey-brown setae so that neither the carapace outline nor the legs are visible — a moving ball of fur on the sand. The eyes and the claw tips are the only bare parts.
It belongs to the same family as the boxer crabs and shares their habit: it holds a small anemone in each claw and carries it about, using the two as stinging deterrents and to gather food particles. Where the boxer crab Lybia is bare-shelled and brightly patterned and holds its anemones out conspicuously, this species keeps them tucked under the fur, so a first look shows no anemones at all. Nocturnal, on rubble and silt in shallow water. Recorded from about 1 to 20 m. Finding one is a matter of noticing that a piece of debris on the sand is travelling.
Ratings are per location: 1 means found on most dives that look for it, 5 means a handful of records. Where enough dives have been logged the figure is calculated from them; otherwise it is an editorial estimate, and says so. We publish habitat and destination, not the dive site.
