Hairy Crab
Pilumnus hirtellus
Animalia
RARE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 2-4 yrs
- Size
- Tiny
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Rocky intertidal shore
- Range
- Europe
- Movement
- Walking
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Rare
About
A small shore crab covered in dense tufts of stiff hair that trap silt and camouflage it among rocks and seaweed. It wields one noticeably enlarged claw for defense and feeding.
Life cycle
- 1.juvenileA juvenile crustacean takes adult form after its larval phase, growing in stages between molts.
- 2.adultFully grown at adult size and full hard shell.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Pilumnidae
- Genus
- Pilumnus
- Species
- Pilumnus hirtellus