Pagurus Pagurus Pagurus is a genus of hermit crabs in the family Paguridae. Like other hermit crabs, their abdomen is not calcified and they use snail shells as portable homes. These marine decapod crustaceans are omnivorous, but mostly prey on small animals and scavenge carrion. "Trigonocheirus" and "Pagurixus" used to be considered subgenera of "Pagurus", but the former is nowadays included in "Orthopagurus", while the latter has been separated as a distinct genus. Some 170 species are presently placed in "Pagurus"; many others have been placed here at one time or another but are now assigned to other genera of Paguroidea.
Coastal peacock spider Coastal peacock spider Maratus speciosus, sometimes called the coastal peacock spider, is an Australian species of jumping spider (family Salticidae). They are only known to inhabit the vegetation of the coastal sand dunes of southwestern Western Australia. Like other "Maratus" spiders, the males of the species engage in a courtship display during which they raise their third pair of legs and their abdomen, presenting their colorful opisthosomal plate to potential female partners. Unlike other "Maratus", however, the males of this species have a set of bright orange hairs (setae) along both edges of the opisthosoma which only become visible during