Photis conchicola

Photis conchicola is a species of marine amphipod crustacean which lives in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

It grows to a length of 5.5 mm (0.22 in), and lives on rocky beaches among algae and surfgrass.

[1] It often inhabits discarded gastropod shells, which it attaches to marine plants.

[2] Predators of P. conchicola include the fish Embiotoca lateralis.

[2] The shells used by P. conchicola are chiefly Alia carinata, Tricolia pulloides, Bittium eschrichtii, Amphissa versicolor, Lacuna marmorata and Lacuna unifasciata.