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Diogenes heteropsammicola
The Diogenes heteropsammicola  is a hermit carb species recently discovered in the shallow waters of the Japanese Amami Islands by scientist Momoko Igawa and Makoto Kato of Kyoto University, Japan. This Hermit crab species is rather unique due to the discovery that the organisms use living, growing coral as a shell. Crustaceans of this type commonly replace their shell as the organism grows in size, but D. heteropsammicola are the first known of their kinds to use solitary corals as a shell form. Heteropsammia and Heterocyanthus are the two solitary corals that the new hermit species has been observed as normally occupying. Interestingly, these two coral species are also used as a home for symbiotic marine worm.