Definitions

1. Hermit crabs are crabs that lack a hard shell; they use a discarded shell for protection. (Web site)
2. Hermit crabs are invertebrates that do not grow inside their shells, but rather use shells as defense and temporary homes.
3. Hermit crabs are able to bury their food in the sand to consume later, but other crabs may find it and consume it themselves.
4. Hermit crabs are very particular about their shells.
5. Hermit Crabs are widespread on different demersal habitats, and the choice of shell depends on what is available.

Fiddler Crabs

1. Two familiar crab groups are hermit crabs and fiddler crabs. (Web site)

Crustacean

1. The hermit crab is a crustacean; there are about 500 different species of hermit crabs around the world. (Web site)

Crustaceans

1. Arthropods include spiders, scorpions, insects, millipedes, centipedes, and crustaceans, such as hermit crabs.

Scavengers

1. Diet: Hermit crabs are omnivores (eating plants and animals) and scavengers (eating dead animals that they find). (Web site)

Hermit

1. They are favorite food of hermit crabs, as they are the "hermit" of the spider world.

Shells

1. Unlike other hermit crabs, the adult coconut crabs do not carry shells but instead harden their abdominal terga by depositing chitin and chalk. (Web site)
2. Most frequently hermit crabs utilize the shells of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. (Web site)

Invertebrates

1. Anatomy: Hermit crabs are invertebrates, animals without a backbone. (Web site)
2. Invertebrates in coastal Britain are very diverse and include, brittle starfish, hermit crabs, Mussels, Prawns, Sponges, Sea anemones and sea squirts.
3. Discover facts about hermit crabs with information from a published biologist in this free video on invertebrates. (Web site)

Crab

1. Animals found in their stomachs include sand lance, octopus, crab, salmon, hermit crabs, lamprey, sculpin, cod, pollock, herring, and flounder.

Crabs

1. Squat lobsters and hermit crabs are intermediate between lobsters and crabs.
2. These include the octopuses, some crabs, first of all King crabs Paralithodes camtschatica (Tilesius), and hermit crabs (Kalashnikov, 1986).
3. Some of these are critters like shrimp, lobster, nudibranchs, worms, crabs, hermit crabs, sea apples, cucumbers, and others. (Web site)

Hermit Crabs

1. Many other animals with similar names – such as hermit crabs, king crabs, porcelain crabs, horseshoe crabs and crab lice – are not true crabs. (Web site)
2. The Decapoda is an order of crustaceans which contains all the familiar species such as hermit crabs, lobsters and prawns. (Web site)
3. Hermit crabs sometimes attach sea anemones to their shells for camouflage. (Web site)

Categories

1. Crabs
2. Lobsters
3. Shells
4. Hermit
5. Favorite Food
6. Books about "Hermit Crabs" in Amazon.com
   

Continue: More Keywords - - - - - - - - - -