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This 6 page paper provides an overview of this type of hermit crab that lives in the water. This species is discussed in depth. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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name for the species is actually Calcinus and they vary in size, going up to about an inch (2003). Clearly, this is a very small type of hermit crab
as the land variety grow much larger. Tidepool crabs are also omnivores and feed on plant and animal materials (2003). They are actually members of the large invertebrate Phylum
Arthropoda that includes crabs in addition to land-dwelling insects, and many other groups (2003). Like all arthropods, hermit crabs have jointed limbs and segmented bodies and as members of
the Subphylum Crustacea, the most prominent arthropod group in the ocean, the hermit crabs also have a few features in common ("Marine Life," 2003). They share some of these
features with their closest relatives, which are shrimp, lobsters, and true crabs (2003). All of these species have three body regions, which are a head, thorax and
abdomen (2003). They also have two pairs of antennae, crushing mouth parts called mandibles, and all is protected by a hard external skeleton (2003). Hermit crabs and their relatives
go by the name anomurans and are different from the "true crabs" as instead, these creatures have a reduced and softened abdomen ("Marine Life," 2003). Hermit crabs are able to
protect the vulnerable part of their bodies through the utilization of an empty snail shell as extra armor (2003). The hermit crabs abdomen is curved so it will fit the
shell and its small hook-like limbs anchor its body within the shell (2003). The species would likely not survive unless they find protection and they do this early on in
life. Hermit crabs have 5 pairs of legs, and the first pair is modified into claws and the last two help them hold onto the shell ("Marine Life," 2003). When
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