A couple of months ago Robert W. Elwood and Mirjam Appel designed an elegant experiment using hermit crabs and electricity:To investigate whether decapods feel pain we gave hermit crabs, Pagurus bernhardus, small electric shocks within their shells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

In amongst the wildly contorted Proterozoic strata, we spotted small fish, an assortment of hermit crabs (Pagurus spp.), small spider crabs (Libinia spp.), and a number of different taxa of cancroids, including juvenile Rock crabs (Cancer irroratus).    From Wordnik.com.  ["Here, by the ocean, the sky's filled with leaves..."] Reference

Pagurus and Palaemon in no single peculiarity of structure which leads us to suppose a common inheritance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference

Pagurus, the parasite also no longer required the calcareous test, in which, no doubt, the first Cirripedes settling upon these Decapods rejoiced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference

The supposition that certain Cirripedes might once upon a time have selected the soft ventral surface of a Crab, Porcellana or Pagurus, for its dwelling-place, has certainly nothing improbable about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference

Thus the caudal feet (the "lateral caudal lamellae") are formed freely on the ventral surface in Euphausia and the Prawns with Nauplius-brood, and within the caudal lamellae in the Prawns with Zoea-brood, in Pagurus and Porcellana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference

Hatterick's and the other (Pagurus clibanarius) from Shark Bay, are all the Annulose animals described or figured as coming from New Holland, from the pitiable circumstance above alluded to.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference

Black-eyed hermit crab, Pagurus armatus.    From Wordnik.com.  [BC Bloggers] Reference

Pagurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference

Pagurus granosimanus.    From Wordnik.com.  [BC Bloggers] Reference

Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus).    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference

Suggest removal) @Pagurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [independent.com stories] Reference