Showing posts with label hermit crabs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hermit crabs. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Sunday, October 2, 2011
blueband hermit crab ~ 10/02/11 ~ Shoreline Park
Pagurus samuelis
This is the first time I've really looked up hermit crabs. It's a challenge to find local hermit crab information, because most searches show pet hermit crabs from the Caribbean and Ecuador. I've collected better marine internet sources since my first hermit crab post on 06/04/09.
The blue bands on the legs, solid red antennae, location, and behavior make me fairly confident of this ID. We have a variety of hermit crabs here, including grainyhand hermit crab (Pagurus granosimanus), bering hermit crab (Pagurus beringanus), and hairy hermit crab (Pagurus hirsutiusculus).
Thanks to a nifty new interpretive sign, I learned the black shells with sanded tops and edges were made by black turban snails (Chlorosroma funebralis). There are a couple different snail shells being used by hermit crabs in the last picture. My wild guesses are possible Littorna sp. or Nucella sp. Stanford's SeaNet also has a nice representation of other subtidal shelled gastropods. And, I really like Gary McDonald's UC Santa Cruz's Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, CA site.
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The blue bands on the legs, solid red antennae, location, and behavior make me fairly confident of this ID. We have a variety of hermit crabs here, including grainyhand hermit crab (Pagurus granosimanus), bering hermit crab (Pagurus beringanus), and hairy hermit crab (Pagurus hirsutiusculus).
Thanks to a nifty new interpretive sign, I learned the black shells with sanded tops and edges were made by black turban snails (Chlorosroma funebralis). There are a couple different snail shells being used by hermit crabs in the last picture. My wild guesses are possible Littorna sp. or Nucella sp. Stanford's SeaNet also has a nice representation of other subtidal shelled gastropods. And, I really like Gary McDonald's UC Santa Cruz's Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, CA site.
Make sure to click on any of the highlighted words (embedded links) for more information.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
hermit crab ~ 06/04/09 ~ Shoreline Park
hermit crabWhile exploring the tide pools along Oceanview here in town, we played with the hermit crabs. This one popped out of its shell and mooned me. He quickly slipped right back into his shell when I dropped him back into the water. We pried small limpets off the rocks and instigated food fight frenzies amongst the hermit crabs. It was great fun!