bernard-l'ermite

Pagurus bernhardus
#nm_0569📍 France
Language
French
Transliteration
bernard-l'ermite
IPA
/bɛʁnaʁ lɛʁmit/

Compound: Bernard + l'ermite Bernard: a personal name, of unexplained motivation, l'ermite: the hermit ↳ l'ermite from Old French eremite, from Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης erēmítēs (of the desert), from ἔρημος érēmos (desert, deserted)

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.