Taiwan-A biological scientists have discovered a new species of crab-like strawberry.
Shelled animals are not usually found off the coast of southern Taiwan. It has a bright red shell with a white rash.
Professor Ho Ping-ho from National Taiwan Marine University, told the Daily Mail (5 / 1), said it resembled a crab species found in several areas around Hawaii, Polynesia and Mauritius, but has a clam shell-shaped 1-inch wide, which makes looks different.
These crabs, omnivorous, especially in algae. There are about 5,000 known species of this animal in the world.
According to Professor Ho, the team also discovered two new species of crab females, in June last year near the coast of Kenting National Park is famous for its wealth of sea biota.
Unfortunately, this strawberry crabs do not live long, probably due to water in the region has been contaminated by wreck of a cargo ship.
Crab Taiwan, Chia-Hsiang Wang also confirmed the findings of Prof. Ho was.
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