. Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools;. s in shells. Photo, whilealive by W. H. C. P. When one shell becomes too small, it is abandoned for alarger one. Numerous species of hermit-crabs occur onour coast, ranging from the shore line to a depth of severalhundred fathoms. Eupagurus longicarpus is the littleactive hermit found in almost any tide-pool from Massa-chusetts Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Hydroids, polyps,sponges, often attach themselves to these borrowed shells(Fig. 98) ; indeed, a Chinese hermit-crab always bears ananemone on its la
. Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools;. s in shells. Photo, whilealive by W. H. C. P. When one shell becomes too small, it is abandoned for alarger one. Numerous species of hermit-crabs occur onour coast, ranging from the shore line to a depth of severalhundred fathoms. Eupagurus longicarpus is the littleactive hermit found in almost any tide-pool from Massa-chusetts Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Hydroids, polyps,sponges, often attach themselves to these borrowed shells(Fig. 98) ; indeed, a Chinese hermit-crab always bears ananemone on its large claw, with which it plugs up theaperture when obliged to retreat within its shell. One of THE CRAYFISH IT* ALLIED 10 the East Indian hermit-crabs, the so-called palm-crab, feedsupon cocoanuts, Avhich it opens by inserting its claws intothe eyes and then breaking the shell upon the rocks. The Hippidae include certain oval animals, which bur-row, like a mole, head first, in sandy beaches. The nameof our common eastern species, Hip paJ talpoides? indicatesthis resemblance (Fig. 100)..
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