Hermit crabs; coconut crab; also crab-like members of the infraorder Anomura, in which the last (fifth) pair of thoracic legs is very small and often kept hidden within the branchial chambers.
[Bliss, 1982]
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Crustacea Glossary. Crustacea Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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