Shell Use: An Adaptation for Emigration from the Sea by the Coconut Crab
- 26 July 1968
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 161 (3839) , 385-386
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.161.3839.385
Abstract
The coconut crab Birgus latro (L.) emigrates from the sea during the postlarval glaucothoe stage. Glaucothoes show ancestral hermit crab behavior of living in empty gastropod shells which protect them during this vulnerable time.Keywords
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