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Diogenes heteropsammicola is a species of hermit crab that lives within "walking corals" of the genera Heterocyathus and Heteropsammia. This hermit crab is different from other typical species as when it finds a coral it makes it its permanent home. This crab is also different from others because of its red, long and thin body, which makes it look unfamiliar when compared to other crab of the same species.



These coral have an internal cavity that is typically occupied by a symbiotic sipunculan worm; in the crab's habitat in the Ōshima Straight south of Amami Ōshima, it is often found inside the corals instead.