Hermit Crab

Chili 1987
Golden King Crab
Lithodes antarctica
(Lithodidae)


Hairy Red Hermit Crab
Dardanus megistos
(Diogenidae)
(Anomura)
Purple Land Hermit Crab
Coenobita purpleus
(Coenobitidae)
(Anomura)
Land Hermit Crab
Coenobita cavipes
(Coenobitidae)
(Anomura)


Hermit Crab is also summarized as the same Decapoda as a crab or a shrimp. Many of friends of Hermit Crab use the husks of a snail as a hotel, and it removes to a big shellfish as it grows. The king crab which does not use the husks of a snail as a hotel is also the friend of Hermit Crab.

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