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are small, both the same size, and covered in short bristles. When threatened, the animal retreats into the shell and the chelipeds block the aperture. The outside of the claws bear small blue tubercles. The body and legs are dark green or brown; the body is faintly streaked with white and the legs
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periodically needs to change the shell in which it lives. At this stage it is at its most vulnerable to predators. If a suitable vacant shell cannot be found, crabs may fight each other for shells or even kill living molluscs. The shells chosen by
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into juveniles. The free-living glaucothoe larvae sometimes finds a suitable sized shell before metamorphosis; otherwise, the juveniles need to find suitable new homes before they are consumed by
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mass of several thousand eggs is brooded by the female on her abdomen. After a few weeks the eggs hatch and the
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234:thinstripe hermit crab
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199:Miers, 1877
139:Clibanarius
108:Pleocyemata
856:Categories
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357:glaucothoe
349:planktonic
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