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2. Calcinus guamensis - Wikipedia

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   Calcinus guamensis is a small hermit crab with a maximum shell width of about 6 mm (0.24 in). It is easily recognized by its coloration of a mustard brown or olive that fades into white, with its walking legs dipped in black. [5]

3. Calcinus laurentae - Wikipedia

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   Calcinus laurentae is a species of left-handed hermit crab in the family Diogenidae. [1] The common name for Calcinus laurentae is Laurent's Hermit Crab [ 2 ] or Redleg calcinus. [ 3 ] Calcinus laurentae are native to Hawaii [ 4 ] and the Hawaiian word for hermit crab is unauna.

4. Dardanus venosus - Wikipedia

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   Dardanus venosus grows to a length of 7 to 12 centimetres (2.8 to 4.7 in). As a hermit crab, it lives inside the empty shell of a gastropod mollusc and its soft abdomen and most of its limbs are normally hidden with just the dactyls, or claws, projecting.

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6. Labidochirus splendescens - Wikipedia

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   Because L. splendescens has a well-calcified carapace, the gastropod mollusc shell which it inhabits is only needed to provide protection for its soft abdomen. However, the crab almost exclusively chooses shells in which to live on which stinging colonial hydroids in the genus Hydractinia are growing; these are likely to provide extra protection to the hermit crab, but it is unknown whether ...

7. Clibanarius erythropus - Wikipedia

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   Clibanarius erythropus is a species of hermit crab that lives in rockpools and sublittoral waters. [2] It is found in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from the Azores to Brittany, the Channel Islands and as far north as the south Cornwall coast. [2] [3] [4] Individuals may grow up to a carapace length of 15 ...

8. Hermit crab - Wikipedia

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   A hermit crab emerges from its shell, Coenobita perlatus Outside its shell, the soft, curved abdomen of hermit crabs, such as Pagurus bernhardus, is vulnerable. Hermit crab species range in size and shape, from species only a few millimeters long to Coenobita brevimanus (Indos Crab), which can approach the size of a coconut and live 12–70 years.

9. Coenobita cavipes - Wikipedia

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   The larger hermit crabs have been known to submerge their entire bodies into the sea water. The saltwater is used to bind the shell to the crabs back through the high salinity in the water. [ 6 ] In addition, water in the shell allows for rehydration, wetting the surface of their gills and abdomen which aids in gas exchange, reducing their body ...