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Hermit crabs [PDF]

Current Biology, 2008
Briffa, Mark, Mowles, Sophie L.
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An integrative approach-using field and laboratory data to characterize shell utilization and selection pattern by the hermit crab Pagurus criniticornis (Paguridae) from Anchieta Island, Brazil

Nauplius
The aim of this study was to characterize the pattern of gastropod shell occupation in the field and selection of shell size and type under laboratory conditions by the hermit crab Pagurus criniticornis (Dana, 1852), inhabiting the infralittoral area of ...
Fernando L. Mantelatto, Fabíola C. R. Faria, Renata Biagi, Andrea L. Meireles   +3 more
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Use of plastic debris as shelter by an unidentified species of hermit crab from the Maldives [PDF]

, 2013
Copyright © 2009 The Marine Biological Association.An unidentified species of hermit crab from the Maldives was photographed using a plastic box as shelter instead of a natural shell.
Barreiros, João P., Luiz Jr., Omar J.
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Boldness is not associated with dynamic performance capacity in hermit crabs. [PDF]

Biol Lett, 2023
Courtene-Jones W, Briffa M.
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Reproductive Biology of Three Land Hermit Crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae) in Okinawa, Japan. [PDF]

, 2001
Reproductive ecological research on three land hermit crabs, Coenobita rugosus, C. purpureus, and C. cavipes, was conducted in the southern part of Okinawa-jima island in 1985, 1986, 1987, and for a short period in 1999.
Nakasone, Yukio
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Synoptic review of the Literature on the southern oyster drill Thais haemastoma floridana [PDF]

, 1985
This literature search identifies a majority of the publications in the period 1880-1980 concerned with the marine gastropod, Thais haemastomafloridmul (Conrad).
Butler, Phillip A.
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Shell occupation by the hermit crab Dardanus insignis (Decapoda, Diogenidae) from the north Coast of São Paulo state, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology
The pattern of shell occupation by the hermit crab Dardanus insignis (Saussure, 1858) from the subtropical region of southeastern coast of Brazil was investigated in the present study. The percentage of shell types that were occupied and the morphometric
I. F. Frameschi, L. S. Andrade, V. Fransozo, L. C. Fernandes-Góes, A. L. Castilho   +4 more
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Egg production and shell relationship of the land hermit crab Coenobita scaevola (Anomura: Coenobitidae) from Wadi El-Gemal, Red Sea, Egypt

Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology, 2012
The aim of the present study is to characterize the fecundity of the land hermit crab Coenobita scaevola as well as the influence of shell type on fecundity using morphometric relationships.
Wafaa S. Sallam
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Doors to the Homes: Signal Potential of Red Coloration of Claws in Social Hermit Crabs. [PDF]

Integr Org Biol, 2023
Doherty CTM, Laidre ME.
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The hermit-crab and the coconut crab

, 2011
Cette petite fable, très classique à Ouvéa, explique pourquoi le bernard-l'hermite s'habille toujours avec les vêtements des autres et pourquoi le crabe de cocotier, honteux de montrer sa nudité, se manifeste surtout la nuit. La morale de l'histoire (dans cette version du moins !) est qu'il faut ... respecter les femmes.
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