soldier-crabn.
The hermit-crab.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > member of family Paguridae of Anomura
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hermit1661
soldier1666
soldier-crab1668
wrong-heir1730
hermit-crab1736
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hermit-lobster1850
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paguroid1879
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1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 177 Cancellus,..the little Souldier-Crab.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. v. iv. 121 The Naked-Shrimp, commonly called The Souldier-Crab.
1736 Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 115 Others call them Soldier-Crabs, resembling them to Soldiers in Centinels Boxes.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 376 The animal I mean is the soldier crab, which has some similitude to the lobster, if divested of its shell.
1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 92 Termed indiscriminately Soldier-crabs and Hermit-crabs.
1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 204 The friendship..between Soldier Crabs and Sea Anemones is very remarkable.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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