#4500 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

Long-claw Hermit Crab

🇳🇱 Gemaskerde heremietkreeft ·Pagurus longicarpus

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands (introduced)

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Dylan Jacques-Fero · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Matthew Salkiewicz · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Sequoia Janirella Wrens · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Nicholas Collins · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Robert (Bob) M Branton · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Nathaniel Sharp · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

27 cm) common subtidal decapod ranging out to 150 ft (46 m) deep found living in shells from periwinkles, oyster drills, and eastern mud snails. It is found from Nova Scotia to Florida and Texas.

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,309iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).