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Hermit crabs can be informally divided into two groups: aquatic hermits crabs and terrestrial hermit crabs. [17] Four hermit crabs in an aquarium Paguritta gracilipes, a hermit crab living in a coral for protection. The first group is the aquatic hermit crabs (almost all marine, with a single species, Clibanarius fonticola, in freshwater).
A Caribbean hermit crab in the Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida. The Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus), also known as the soldier crab, [2] West Atlantic crab, tree crab, or purple pincher (due to the distinctive purple claw), is a species of land hermit crab native to the west Atlantic, Belize, southern Florida, [3] Venezuela, and the West Indies.
Anomura (sometimes Anomala) is a group of decapod crustaceans, including hermit crabs and others. Although the names of many anomurans include the word crab, all true crabs are in the sister group to the Anomura, the Brachyura (the two groups together form the clade Meiura).
Clibanarius tricolor. (Gibbes, 1850) [1] Synonyms. Clibanarius brachyops Bouvier, 1918. Clibanarius tricolor is a hermit crab that lives in shallow water of the Caribbean Sea and is popular in the home aquarium trade. Its common names include blue-legged hermit crab, tricolor hermit crab, [1] blueleg reef hermit crab, equal handed hermit crab ...
Description. Labidochirus splendescens can grow to a carapace width of about 2.8 cm (1.1 in). The carapace is armed with dorsal spines and is more heavily calcified than is the case in most hermit crabs. The walking legs are relatively long and the crab "wears" a mollusc shell that appears to be too small.
Carcinisation. Porcelain crabs resemble crabs, but are more closely related to squat lobsters and hermit crabs. [1] Carcinisation (American English: carcinization) is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab -like body plan.
Coenobita baltzeri Neumann, 1878. Coenobita cavipes (Passionfruit Hermit) is a species of land hermit crab native to the eastern parts of Africa, the Indonesia, Philippines, China, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Polynesia, and Micronesia. [2][3][4][5][6][7] While these hermit crabs are terrestrial, they prefer to reside near the shores for access of ...
Cancer bernhardus. Linnaeus, 1758 [2] Pagurus is a genus of hermit crabs in the family Paguridae. Like other hermit crabs, their abdomen is not calcified and they use snail shells as protection. These marine decapod crustaceans are omnivorous, but mostly prey on small animals and scavenge carrion.