How To Use hermit crab In A Sentence
- You will often find species of shrimp living on urchins and starfish in the tropics and, if you look carefully, might also find very small hermit crabs adopting the same behaviour, particularly on starfish.
- A screwed up psycho from a rich family has been garrotting strangers and taking their identity, ‘like a hermit crab.’
- Mark Soifer, one of the nation'seading publicists, is director of special events and promotion for Ocean City, N.J. His work has brought national media to the resort city to report about the annual Doo-Dah parade, the Miss Crustacean Contest, Martin Z. Mollusk Day (where a hermit crab checks his shadow to determine if summer is coming early), and numerable other suntime fun events. The Ultimate Epithet: The Grandmother Who Climbed a Fence to Fight for Union Workers
- A less common example of symbiosis occurs when a hermit crab lives on another species.
- After all, he is a hermit crab who predicts football results. Times, Sunday Times
- Fertilized eggs develop into crawling planula larvae which settle on hermit crab-occupied shells, and subsequently metamorphose into primary polyps.
- She seems to have few friends and has complained that she is forced to live'the life of a hermit crab '. Times, Sunday Times
- The attachment site of the large Crepidula on the ventral side of the host shell and the presence of algal or sponge borings through the columella of the host indicate that the Oliva shell was possibly occupied by a hermit crab.
- Also, hermit crabs commonly kept as pets molt and shed their exoskeleton.
- Small hermit crabs are readily available where there is ocean water and their value as scavengers makes them worth considering.
