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In amongst the wildly contorted Proterozoic strata, we spotted small fish, an assortment of hermit crabs (Pagurus spp.), small spider crabs (Libinia spp.), and a number of different taxa of cancroids, including juvenile Rock crabs (Cancer irroratus).
"Here, by the ocean, the sky's filled with leaves..." greygirlbeast 2008
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A couple of months ago Robert W. Elwood and Mirjam Appel designed an elegant experiment using hermit crabs and electricity:To investigate whether decapods feel pain we gave hermit crabs, Pagurus bernhardus, small electric shocks within their shells.
Hermit crabs and midazolam doyle 2009
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A couple of months ago Robert W. Elwood and Mirjam Appel designed an elegant experiment using hermit crabs and electricity:To investigate whether decapods feel pain we gave hermit crabs, Pagurus bernhardus, small electric shocks within their shells.
Archive 2009-06-01 doyle 2009
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The supposition that certain Cirripedes might once upon a time have selected the soft ventral surface of a Crab, Porcellana or Pagurus, for its dwelling-place, has certainly nothing improbable about it.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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Pagurus, the parasite also no longer required the calcareous test, in which, no doubt, the first Cirripedes settling upon these Decapods rejoiced.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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Thus the caudal feet (the "lateral caudal lamellae") are formed freely on the ventral surface in Euphausia and the Prawns with Nauplius-brood, and within the caudal lamellae in the Prawns with Zoea-brood, in Pagurus and Porcellana.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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Pagurus and Palaemon in no single peculiarity of structure which leads us to suppose a common inheritance.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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The objects most frequently met with, were an ugly little _Turbo_, the empty shell of which was tenanted by a black _Pagurus_ and a _Balanus_.
A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 Otto von Kotzebue 1816
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** Boy Blue, I think, is a grainyhand hermit, Pagurus granosimanus.
BC Bloggers 2010
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* (* Glaucothoe Peronii, M. - Edw., may be a young and still symmetrical Pagurus of this kind.) (FIGURE 27.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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