paguridn.adj.
/ˈpaɡjərɪd/, /pəˈɡjʊərɪd/, U.S. /pəˈɡjʊrɪd/, /ˈpæɡjərɪd/ Zoology.
A. n.
A decapod crustacean of the family Paguridae or (more widely) the superfamily Paguroidea, including hermit crabs.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > member of family Paguridae of Anomura
hermit-fish1605
hermit1661
soldier1666
soldier-crab1668
wrong-heir1730
hermit-crab1736
pagurian1840
hermit-lobster1850
pirate1857
paguroid1879
Jack-in-the-box1889
pagurid1893
pagurine1899
1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea xi. 162 Many of the Pagurids are very beautifully coloured.
1935 Amer. Midland Naturalist 16 712 All pagurids are scavengers, or detritus or plankton feeders, but they will take any living prey they are able to handle.
1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 xii. 294 The adaptations which they show for their lives with pagurids are essentially superficial in terms of basic morphological characters.
1994 E. E. Ruppert & R. D. Barnes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 6) xiv. 705 (caption) A pagurid in a gastropod shell.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the hermit crab family Paguridae or superfamily Paguroidea.
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1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea xxvi. 403 The Peltogaster, it must be understood, is a strangely metamorphosed Cirripede, which pushes roots into the body of its Pagurid host.
1950 Ecology 31 527/2 Pagurid zoeae..were especially common in Cuthbert Lake, which had the lowest salinity of all south coast localities.
1970 Canad. Jrnl. Zool. 48 371 (heading) The association of Calliactis tricolor with its pagurid, calappid, and majid partners in the Caribbean.
1994 E. E. Ruppert & R. D. Barnes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 6) xiv. 705 (caption) Anomuran pagurid hermit crabs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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