It actually looks like a conch inside not a hermit crab if you look to the right it looks like a foot.
Also the shell Triplofusus papillosus I cannot find one the same that has a piece sticking up in the middle, could it be another type?
Just got off the phone with the director of education at the Key West Aquarium in Key West Florida, she said the species of hermit crab that would inhabit that shell in the Antilles would be a giant red hermit crab. (Petrochirus Diogenes)
The shell appears to be a (Triplofusus papillosus) Horse Conch shell
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Posted by @GlassmanThe spire (which is from the shoulder to the apex) is rather long for a Queen Conch nonetheless I do believe this is a Queen Conch.
Posted by @GlassmanPlease look at this conch copy/past https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lobatus_gigas_2.jpg
Posted by @JolineCuracaoThere was actually a conch inside, not a hermit crab!
Posted by @fishx6It actually looks like a conch inside not a hermit crab if you look to the right it looks like a foot. Also the shell Triplofusus papillosus I cannot find one the same that has a piece sticking up in the middle, could it be another type?
Posted by @GlassmanJust got off the phone with the director of education at the Key West Aquarium in Key West Florida, she said the species of hermit crab that would inhabit that shell in the Antilles would be a giant red hermit crab. (Petrochirus Diogenes) The shell appears to be a (Triplofusus papillosus) Horse Conch shell