Common Hermit Crab
Colour, usually orange but occasionally bluish
specimens are discovered.
More Information and Photographs (Link)
[画像:Common Hermit Crab in the shell of a Sting Winkle (Photograph by Andy Horton)]
The major larger claw is always on the right side nearest the apex
of the adopted shell when viewed from the front.
The Hermit
Crab on the left is Diogenes pugilator
with the major claw on the left.
Similar species:
Breeding:
Habitat:Pagurus bernhardus dislodged from its protective whelk shell, with eggs attached to the soft abdomen.
The furry covering on the shell is the hydroid Hydractinia echinata .
hydrozoan
Hydractinia
echinata
http://www.zoo.uni-heidelberg.de/Zoo2/Leitz/hydractinia.htm
[画像:Hermit Crabs off Worthing (Photograph by Paul Parsons)]
Hermit
Crabs off Worthing
Photograph
by Paul Parsons
Hermit Crabs in Torbay
Aquarium Notes
Hermit
Crabs (Isle of Wight) including Pagurus cuanensis
on
Luke Richards' web pages
Pagurus cuanensis (CD-ROM ONLY) Andy Horton
Links:
Photograph showing the
reduced fifth pair of legs
Footage showing a Hermit
Crab with its claws withdrawn into its adopted shell (CD-ROM only).
Hermit Crabs for the younger student (NE Atlantic
species only)
Information wanted: Please send any records of this crab, with
location, date, who discovered it, how it was identified, prevalence, common
name and any other details to
Shorewatch
Project EMail Glaucus@hotmail.com.
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