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Pagurus

NOUN
  1. type genus of the family Paguridae

How To Use Pagurus In A Sentence

  • It grows as a surface incrustation on gastropod shells inhabited by the hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus.
  • 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.
  • 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..."
  • Webster discussed the physiological significance of this mechanism of endocrine metabolic adaptation for C. pagurus, which may be repeatedly subjected to short-term emersion and hypoxia in the intertidal zone.
  • Species that require restudy, based upon their apparent similarity to Cliopagurus spp., include D. hungaricus and D. arrosor.
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