The team documented crabs of the species Cyclodius ungulatus feeding along the margins of tissue loss in the branching coral species Acropora aspera. Video by Julianna Renzi Disclaimer ...

Crab behavior suggestive of wound-tending may ... For their study, Renzi and colleagues collected samples of Acropora aspera, a type of branching coral, from a designated research area in ...

Researchers reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences have discovered that the branching coral Acropora aspera benefits from the presence of the reef-dwelling crab Cyclodius ungulatus ...