Today · Tuesday 27 October 2026
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Boxer crab
It holds a small sea anemone in each claw. If it loses one, it usually tears the other in two, and each half grows into a whole new anemone.
- Lives in
- Coral reefShallow coral reefs from the Red Sea and East Africa to Indonesia and the Philippines
More about the boxer crabScientific name, size and Red List status
- Scientific name
- Lybia leptochelis
- Size
- 5–11 mm across the shell
- IUCN Red List
- Not evaluated
The IUCN Red List has assessed 175,909 species. This one has not been assessed yet. What this means
Fact source: Schnytzer et al., 2017
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Scientists still discover thousands of new animal species every year, while many others are disappearing because of habitat loss and climate change. Some die out before anyone has described them.
10,000+
new animal species are described every year.
University of Arizona, 2025
86%
of species on Earth, and 91% in the ocean, have not been described yet.
Mora et al., 2011
73%
average drop in monitored wildlife populations between 1970 and 2020.
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