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Calcinus verrillii

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has a robust, calcified carapace, eight thoracic segments and six or seven abdominal segments. The carapace and legs are spotted with purple and orange, the eyes have slender eyestalks and the front three pairs of
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is native to Bermuda and does not occur naturally anywhere else. It is mostly found in the subtidal zone and has been found as deep as 110 metres (630 ft). It is uncommon in intertidal areas and
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mollusc, it sometimes makes use of the empty, tube-like shells of certain gastropod mollusc species while the tube is permanently cemented to rocks in the reef.
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are smooth and hairless. The soft abdomen is coiled and fits into the mollusc shell which the hermit crab uses for protection, the
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Rodrigues, Lisa J.; Dunham, David W.; Coates, Kathryn A. (2000). "Shelter Preferences in the Endemic Bermudian Hermit Crab,
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Although this hermit crab species generally inhabits the discarded shell of a free-living
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molluscs in which to live as it grows. It commonly inhabits shells of
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grow larger than males, and are more likely to occupy tube shells.
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but is abundant on reefs and rocks with strong water movement.
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Markham, John C. (1997). "Preliminary note on the ecology of
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at the tip of the abdomen gripping the inside of the shell.
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Index

Calcinus verrilli
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Pleocyemata
Anomura
Diogenidae
Calcinus
Binomial name
Rathbun
Synonyms
species
hermit crab
Calcinus
endemic
Bermuda
first described
Mary J. Rathbun
Addison Emery Verrill
gastropod
Calcinus
walking legs
uropods
rock pools
gastropod
Cerithium litteratum

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