keşiş yengeci
Pagurus bernhardus
#nm_0567📍 Turkey
- Language
- Turkish
- Transliteration
- kesis yengeci
- IPA
- /keˈʃiʃ jenɟeˈdʒi/
Compound: keşiş + yengeç keşiş: monk, yengeç: crab ↳ keşiş from Ottoman Turkish keşiş, from Persian keşiş, from Syriac ܩܫܝܫܐ qaššīšā (elder, priest) ↳ yengeç from Old Anatolian Turkish yengeç, from Proto-Turkic *yeŋgeç (crab)
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.