{"id":19761,"date":"2024-01-27T01:53:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19761"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:43:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:13:46","slug":"hermit-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hermit-crab\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Hermit Crab"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0About Hermit Crab<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hermit crabs are\u00a0small crustaceans that\u00a0lack a shell\u00a0and must \u201cborrow\u201d one from another animal.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0use empty snail shells (e.g., whelk or periwinkle) or other hollow objects\u00a0as a shelter for partial containment and protection of the body.<\/li>\n<li>Habitat: Hermit crabs,\u00a0worldwide in distribution, occur in\u00a0sandy- or muddy-bottomed marine waters and occasionally on land and in trees.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>They can grow up to\u00a06 inches long.<\/li>\n<li>There are\u00a0two pairs of antennae and\u00a0five pairs of legs.<\/li>\n<li>They are\u00a0opportunistic scavengers, feeding on anything they can find.<\/li>\n<li>They have\u00a0tough pincers but a\u00a0soft body, which they coil up inside their borrowed shell, using their hooked tail to help them to grip on.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0molt (shed their skin) and change shells as they grow.<\/li>\n<li>Despite their name, hermit crabs are\u00a0social creatures and can live together in pairs or groups.<\/li>\n<li>They can\u00a0live for up to 10 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are crustaceans?<\/h3>\n<p>Crustaceans are invertebrate animals in the phylum Arthropoda, subphylum Crustacea, and include the barnacle, crab, crayfish, lobster, shrimp, water flea, and pill bug. Although largely aquatic, a few crustaceans are found in terrestrial habitats. Of the nearly 40,000 aquatic species of crustaceans, only about 10% occur in freshwater habitats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2024\/01\/26\/hermit-crabs-shells-plastic-trash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Majority of land hermit crab species now use trash for shells<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hermit crabs are small crustaceans that lack a shell and must \u201cborrow\u201d one from another animal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}