此外，研究人员还调查了长爪寄居蟹与本地寄居蟹物种（Pagurus bernhardus 和 Diogenes pugilator）的潜在竞争情况 。 研究结果显示，长爪寄居蟹对瓦登海、北海和波罗的海具有较高的环境适宜性，这表明它可能会向新的区域扩张。

Pagurus bernhardus 是广泛分布于北欧和西欧海岸线的常见寄居蟹，过往研究发现，许多寄居蟹会随着生长更换更大的庇护所，而它们的螯在食物处理、争斗行为以及关闭所寄居的腹足纲动物外壳等方面都发挥着关键作用。其中，不同种类寄居蟹关闭外壳的方式各异，在 Paguridae 和 Parapaguridae 科中，主要 ...

Pagurus longicarpus hermit crabs depend on empty gastropod shells for protection against predation. Hermit crabs avoid gastropod shells in which holes have been drilled by naticid gastropods, and ...

Letter Published: 19 April 1969 “Individual” Recognition and Agonistic Behaviour in Pagurus bernhardus BRIAN A. HAZLETT Nature 222, 268–269 (1969) Cite this article ...

Mark Briffa, Dale Dallaway, Inter-sexual contests in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus: females fight harder but males win more encounters, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 61, No. 11 ...

Hermit crabs (Pagurus bernhardus) are found extensively on beaches and in rockpools along the Atlantic coastlines of Europe ...