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hermit crab

Any of various crabs belonging to a group within the order Decapoda that protect their soft unarmored abdomens by occupying and carrying about the empty shells of snails or other univalve mollusks.

hermit crab

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any small soft-bodied decapod crustacean of the genus Pagurus and related genera, living in and carrying about the empty shells of whelks or similar molluscs

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hermit crab - small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods

decapod, decapod crustacean - crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax

genus Pagurus, Pagurus - type genus of the family Paguridae

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hermit crab

n → Einsiedlerkrebs m

hermit crab n → paguro, bernardo l'eremita

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hermit crab (redirected from Pet hermit crabs)

hermit crab
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