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Latin name – Pagarus bernhardus
Size – Shell up to 3.5cm long
Habitat – All over the shore and deep water
Unlike other crabs, the hermit crab doesn’t have a hard shell to protect itself. Instead it uses an empty sea snail shell, such as a winkle or whelk shell, as a home. Its two back legs have adapted into hooks so that it can anchor itself within the shell. As the crab grows it finds a bigger shell to move into.
Hermit Crab
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