Belgian Register of Marine Species - Pagurus bernhardus.
Vocabulary Omnivorous - Of an organism that feeds on both plants and animals. Parasite - An organism that derives its food from, and lives in or on, another living organism at the host's expense. Pelagic - Inhabits the open oceans. Larvae - Stage in an animal’s lifecycle after it hatches from the egg. Larvae are typically very different in appearance to adults; they are able to feed and move.
Pagurus bernhardus, Turrifella communis and Asterias rubens. This is an expected biotope for this area based upon historic video survey work. Table 2: Species ID — Transect 2 Transect 1a Common Name Latin Name SACFOR abundance estimate Common starfish Asterias rubens F Tube anemones Cerianthus lloydii R Auger shell Turntella communis 0.
Pagurus bernhardus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hermit Crab) Interactions where Pagurus bernhardus is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process). The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'References').
Pagurus bernhardus (Linnaeus, 1758), (hermit crab) 7 Apr 1969 at OSGR: TQ30 in East Sussex, England Classification: ( where Pagurus bernhardus fits in the taxonomic hierarchy ).
A large hermit crab with a carapace length that reaches 35mm. It is reddish in colour and will occupy any suitable shell such as Buccinum undatum.Both pincers are covered with thick, pointed protrusions, the massive right pincer has two rows of large protrusions and is devoid of bristles.
Shell selection in common European hermit crabs (Pagurus bernhardus) is an essential survival behaviour, reliant on collecting accurate information about the new shell, assessing its quality and deciding whether to change shells.
Research interests. Contest behaviour in animals, especially 'Shell rapping' in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus and the beadlet sea anemone Actinia equina.In my group we are interested in how fighting animals make decisions to initiate and fight and to withdraw from a fight and how these decisions might be influenced by consistent among individual variation in behaviour.