The widespread coastal hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus relies on empty gastropod shells
for shelter. At low tide, these hermit crabs often become stranded in tide pools, where …

Intertidal zones are highly dynamic environments. At low tide, temperatures and salinities in
intertidal tide pools can change substantially and quickly, depending on the weather …

Hermit crabs of the species Pagurus longicarpus can be found in many Massachusetts tide
pools. Temperatures and salinities in tide pools change far more rapidly than they do …

Hermit crabs are notoriously choosy about the gastropod shells they live in. Many periwinkle
shells at Nahant, Massachusetts, USA contain the gastropod Crepidula plana, which forms a …

Acanthina angelica shells were experimentally manipulated in order to determine the effect
of shell mass, external surface topography, and depth for withdrawal on shell selection by …

To evaluate the adaptive significance of shell preference, we investigated the functional
roles of gastropod shell species in the intertidal hermit crab Pagurus filholi in terms of …

Experimental analyses of hermit crabs and their preferences for shells are essential to
understand the intrinsic relationship of the crabs' dependence on shells, and may be useful …

Most hermit crabs have a specialized lifestyle that requires them to occupy gastropod shells.
The size of shells that hermit crabs inhabit relative to their body size affects their growth …

The close relationship between hermit crabs' fitness and the size and species of gastropod
shells they occupy is largely based on studies of young and adult crabs. When hermit crabs …

Shell preferences were examined in Pagurus longicarpus Say, collected from Wakulla
Beach, Florida, USA in 1987. Relative shell size was a more important shell characteristic in …