How To Use Hermit crab In A Sentence
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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.
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A screwed up psycho from a rich family has been garrotting strangers and taking their identity, ‘like a hermit crab.’
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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.
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A less common example of symbiosis occurs when a hermit crab lives on another species.
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After all, he is a hermit crab who predicts football results.
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Fertilized eggs develop into crawling planula larvae which settle on hermit crab-occupied shells, and subsequently metamorphose into primary polyps.
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She seems to have few friends and has complained that she is forced to live'the life of a hermit crab '.
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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.
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Also, hermit crabs commonly kept as pets molt and shed their exoskeleton.
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Small hermit crabs are readily available where there is ocean water and their value as scavengers makes them worth considering.
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Large or small, landlubbers or seafarers or both, hermit crabs have one feature in common: they generally spend their lives inside the empty shells of snails or other mollusks.
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Hermit crabs want to live free in the sunshine, not bottled up in aquariums.
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What soothes me is lying on my belly at the edge of the water, watching hermit crabs.
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Come on out, you hermit crabs.
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Large or small, landlubbers or seafarers or both, hermit crabs have one feature in common: they generally spend their lives inside the empty shells of snails or other mollusks.
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A hermit crab sticks sand and weed on its shell, and all Jay's glitz was camouflage.
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Swimming onto the heavy granite sand, you will find dragonets, plaice and wandering hermit crabs.
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Hermit crabs are unusual in that the abdomen is asymmetrical (to fit into the empty mollusc shell which is its house), and soft and unarmoured (because the mollusc shell provides protection).
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In the rock pools blennies flicked from sunlight into the shelter of weed and anemone fringes, and hermit crabs went tip-toeing hastily from one dark crevice to the next as my shadow barred the water round them.
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A number of stolonate ctenostomes bore into the substance of mollusk shells; other species are associated only with hermit crabs, and a few are commensal with shrimps or polychaete worms.
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And the hermit crabs run free.
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Also, hermit crabs commonly kept as pets molt and shed their exoskeleton.
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A screwed up psycho from a rich family has been garrotting strangers and taking their identity, ‘like a hermit crab.’
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Come on out, you hermit crabs.
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In 1881, a thunderstorm in Worcester brought down tons of periwinkles and hermit crabs.
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And the hermit crabs run free.
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Somebody told me that if you hum next to a hermit crab, it brings it out - and it works.
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And the hermit crabs run free.
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They are, of course, a member of the Crustacea class, but where other crabs, lobsters and shrimps develop their own protection with a hard outer shell, the hermit crab appears to have managed to evolve only halfway through this process.
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Other species take refuge in a protective structure surrounding their body, such as polychaete tubeworms, caddis fly larvae, gastropod and bivalve mollusks, hermit crabs, barnacles, turtles, and armadillos.
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The torch picked out a tiny red hermit crab as it climbed laboriously across the top of a sponge.
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After all, he is a hermit crab who predicts football results.
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The planula larva settles on a hermit crab shell and metamorphoses into a primary polyp.
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We're all like hermit crabs : little naked creatures that have found a suitable shell and decided to live inside it until it stops fitting.
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Somebody told me that if you hum next to a hermit crab, it brings it out - and it works.
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We're all like hermit crabs : little naked creatures that have found a suitable shell and decided to live inside it until it stops fitting.
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A hermit crab carrying a sea anemone around on its shell.
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Of particular interest in this volume is the review of Sympagurus hermit crabs, some of which live in symbiosis with sea-anemones or zoantharians than can produce pseudo-shells.
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Both spiney lobsters and hermit crabs have been observed attacking gastropods in this fashion and both produce the distinctive notched gastropod remains.
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Anyone who has tried to remove a hermit crab from its shell will know how tenacious these creatures can be.
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Shining our torches onto the sand reveals thousands of hermit crabs scuttling from the light.
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Anyone who has tried to remove a hermit crab from its shell will know how tenacious these creatures can be.
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The cove provided plenty of entertainment with corkwing wrasse, little cuttlefish, hermit crabs and pollack aplenty.
Irish Blogs
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Juvenile rockmover wrasse and dwarf scorpionfish, ghost pipefish, razorfish, stonefish, mantis shrimps, snake eels, and the flamboyant anemone hermit crab are frequently seen in this area.
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There is one exception to this behaviour, and that is the specialised hermit crab Parugrita, which uses a crack in the reef or a discarded tubeworm cast as a home.
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It grows as a surface incrustation on gastropod shells inhabited by the hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus.
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Sometimes you can find a Zebra flatworm sharing the snail shell with the hermit crab.
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Amazingly, the hermit crab's body is asymmetrically twisted so that it fits snugly into the shape of the shell.
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Common lobsters, edible crabs, velvet swimming crabs, shore crabs and hermit crabs were common.
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In amongst the wildly contorted Proterozoic strata, we spotted small fish, an assortment of hermit crabs (Pagurus spp.), small spider crabs (Libinia spp.), and a number of different taxa of cancroids, including juvenile Rock crabs (Cancer irroratus).
"Here, by the ocean, the sky's filled with leaves..."
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Crabs are a particular favourite of mine - shore crabs are numerous, and every other periwinkle shell seems to harbour a hermit crab.
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After all, he is a hermit crab who predicts football results.
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She seems to have few friends and has complained that she is forced to live'the life of a hermit crab '.
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One half the hermit crab is as naked as the "human animal," and even less fitted for exposure; for it consists of a thin-skinned, soft, unmuscular bag, filled with delicate viscera; but not even the human animal is more skilful in clothing himself in the spoils of other animals than the hermit crab in wrapping up its naked bag in the strong shell of some dead fusus or buccinum, which it carries about with it in all its peregrinations, as at once clothes, armor, and house.
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A hermit crab sticks sand and weed on its shell, and all Jay's glitz was camouflage.
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For the first time, teacher Kevin Stinnette thought, his students could do hands-on lessons with cold-water species such as frilled anemones and Acadia hermit crabs.
Delusional Duck
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Only the hermit crab, as far as I can recall, searches for empty shells, of whelks or periwinkles, or indeed any other hollow object and crawls inside, to serve as shelter and protection of the body.
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We're all like hermit crabs: little naked creatures that have found a suitable shell and decided to live inside it until it stops fitting.
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Come on out, you hermit crabs.
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The new display will also include tropical hermit crabs, crawfish, horseshoe crabs, and other species.
