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The book tells the story of a hermit crab who is guided by instinct presented in the form of a voice called "Old Pal". In the process it presents a study of tide pool life. Like most of Holling's works, it is lushly illustrated, containing many full-page color paintings.
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.
Calcinus verrillii, commonly known as Verrill's hermit crab, is a species of hermit crab in the genus Calcinus which is endemic to Bermuda.It was first described by the American zoologist Mary J. Rathbun and named in honour of the American zoologist Addison Emery Verrill, who spent much time with his students studying the geology and marine fauna of Bermuda.
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.
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 and blueleg hermit crab.
Coenobita brevimanus is a species of terrestrial hermit crab belonging to the family Coenobitidae, which is composed of coastal living terrestrial hermit crabs.From there it belongs to the genus Coenobita, one of two genera split from the family, which contains sixteen species.
Unlike other hermit crabs, pylochelid hermit crabs are not markedly asymmetrical, with a straight body and equal numbers of appendages on both sides. This characteristic, together with the partial calcification of the abdomen (which is soft in other hermit crabs) led Edward J. Miers, when describing the first species, to consider it to represent a transition between hermit crabs and "Macrura ...
Adamsia palliata is a species of sea anemone in the family Hormathiidae.It is usually found growing on a gastropod shell inhabited by the hermit crab, Pagurus prideaux. [1] The anemone often completely envelops the shell and because of this it is commonly known as the cloak anemone or the hermit-crab anemone.