The Devil's Fauna

'The Devils's Fauna' has gone through Critters. Plenty of people looked at it and, with only one exception, it got the thumbs up. Plenty of useful comments. Nothing to prompt a major rewrite, just a few sentences to trim here and there, and some others to beef up, but like I said, nothing major. What has surprised me is that not one person out of the twenty or so that have read it said they identified what the creature -- the usurper -- revealed at the end of the story, actually is. Some seemed to think it was a kind of worm or alien thingy, or maybe a parasite, but no one recognised the description of a brown crustacean with a soft corkscrew body, pincers and pinkish legs as that of a hermit crab without its shell. I only mention this now because prior to submitting it to Critters, I fully expected opinion to be divided between those that saw it was a common hermit crab (these readers liking the story) and those that wouldn't twig what the usurper was (and thus not like the story). But, it appears no one recognised the animal and apart from one dissenting voice they liked it anyway. I needn't have worried. Just need to find a home for it now. Anyone know of a nice roomy whelk shell, currently unoccupied?