Calliactis parasitica

Hermit Crab with Calliactis sp.

The parasite Rose ( Calliactis parasitica ) is among the anemones and comes in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean at depths of 3 to 100 meters. It is sometimes also called parasite Water Lily, Rose Schmarotzeraktinie or hermit. She is often found with several individuals on the housing of a hermit crab and entertains with this name against the parasite Rose a special symbiotic relationship. The hermit crabs are mostly to Paguristes oculatus and Dardanus arrosor.

Parasites roses can reach a diameter of four to five inches and ten inches high. Your body is provided and dark brown with lighter stripes. The oral disc is provided with 300 to 700 hardly retractable tentacles.