erakkorapu
Pagurus bernhardus
#nm_0566📍 Finland
- Language
- Finnish
- Transliteration
- erakkorapu
- IPA
- /ˈerɑkːorɑpu/
Compound: erakko + rapu erakko: hermit, rapu: crab, crayfish ↳ erakko is a native Finnish formation from erä (tract, wilderness) + -kko (place/collective suffix), not a loan from Greek ἐρημίτης erēmítēs, which instead gave the separate Finnish loanword eremiitti
Hermit crab that occupies empty gastropod shells for protection, its soft asymmetric abdomen having no hard covering of its own. Found in the north-east Atlantic from the intertidal zone to about 500 m depth.