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- Title
Communication and Mutual Resource Exchange in North Florida Hermit Crabs.
- Authors
Hazlett, Brian A.
- Abstract
The patterns of shell exchange in three species of hermit crabs which overlap in distribution and shell use were observed in the laboratory. Crabs showed no tendency to initiate more exchanges with conspecifics as compared with nonconspecific individuals and there were no specific size dominance effects. Lack of common communicatory patterns between Clibanarius vittatus and Pagurus pollicaris was correlated with minimal actual exchange, while Pagurus impressus exchanged with both species and executed patterns in common with both. The pattern of shell exchanges and preferences indicated that, in some cases, both individuals may gain in interspecific exchanges.
- Subjects
HERMIT crabs; ANIMAL communication; HERMIT crab shells; DECAPODA; CRABS; PAGURUS
- Publication
Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 1980, Vol 6, Issue 3, p177
- ISSN
0340-5443
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00569198