Petrochirus diogenes
Petrochirus diogenes is a giant marine hermit crab. This species lives in the Caribbean Sea, and often inhabits conch shells. This species of hermit crab is large enough that it can inhabit a fully grown shell of Lobatus gigas. It will attack and eat a conch, thus obtaining a meal and a shell. It was originally described by Carl Linnaeus as Cancer diogenes; the specific epithet honours Diogenes of Sinope.
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Petrochirus diogenes
Petrochirus diogenes is a giant marine hermit crab. This species lives in the Caribbean Sea, and often inhabits conch shells. This species of hermit crab is large enough that it can inhabit a fully grown shell of Lobatus gigas. It will attack and eat a conch, thus obtaining a meal and a shell. It was originally described by Carl Linnaeus as Cancer diogenes; the specific epithet honours Diogenes of Sinope.
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Petrochirus diogenes is a gian ...... et honours Diogenes of Sinope.
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Petrochirus diogenes is een ti ...... liceerd in 1758 door Linnaeus.
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巨寄居蟹(學名Petrochirus diogenes),又 ...... 霸佔女王鳳凰螺的殼。它們會攻擊及吃了女王鳳凰螺,並霸佔其殼。
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Petrochirus diogenes is a gian ...... et honours Diogenes of Sinope.
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Petrochirus diogenes is een ti ...... liceerd in 1758 door Linnaeus.
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巨寄居蟹(學名Petrochirus diogenes),又 ...... 霸佔女王鳳凰螺的殼。它們會攻擊及吃了女王鳳凰螺,並霸佔其殼。
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Petrochirus diogenes
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Petrochirus diogenes
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巨寄居蟹
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