Hermit Crab

Chili 1987
Golden King Crab
Lithodes antarctica
(Lithodidae)


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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