Calcinus levimanus

Left-handed hermit crab
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Chela Zabin

Sandy Beach, Oahu
April 6, 2004
Calcinus levimanus
Description Habitat Trophic Info
Safety Comments Links to Resources

Description: The hermit crab's left claw is bigger than the right claw.  The big left claw is white with a little brown.  The legs legs are brown with white tips.  It has blue eyes and eyestalks.  It is orange in the middle of the eyestalk.  the hermit crab is found in truban, top, or nerite shells.
Habitat: The left-handedhermit crab is found few inches in the water under rocks or on top of rocks.  It is found at low to moderate wave action.
Range (include invasive, native, endemic): The left-handed hermit crab is native to Hawaii to Indo-Pacific.
Trophic information: The left-handed hermit crab eats left over food from other organisums.  It get eatan from other hermit crabs. 
Safety: The left-handed hermit crab can pinch, but not as hard.  Avoiding from getting pinch grab the back of the shell.
Comments: The left-handed hermit crabs is very active at night.
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