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What is the symbiotic relationship between crabs and barnacles?
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What is the symbiotic relationship between a barnacles and crab?
Barnacles on a crab's shell improve its toughness, while the barnacles (normally lacking motility) are able to visit more than one location to obtain food, and may even feed on the crab's prey. Some barnacles, however, can cause damage or sterility in some species of crabs.
Why are whales and barnacles buddies?
They aren't symbiotic : the barnacles (crustaceans related to crabs) are parasites on the whale's skin, and will also attach to boats, docks, and other marine locations.
Why can't hermit crabs survive without symbiotic relationship?
They won't have any shells to live in
What is an example on aommensalism in the ocean?
one example are whales and barnacles, the barnacle benefits from the whale because it eats and gets protection, and the whale does not seem to be affected in any way.Commensalism is a symbiotic relationship where one party benefits and the other is not harmed. Examples of commensalism in the ocean are barnacles living on turtles, remoras feeding on a shark's food scraps and a crab that makes its home in an oyster's shell.
Barnacle and the hermit crab differneces?
There is only one main difference between hermit crabs and barnacles. Hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton that protects their bodies.
What is a sacculina?
A sacculina is a genus of barnacles, which is a castrator of crabs.
Barnacles attach themselves to the shells of crabs The barnacles receive a home The crab is unaffected?
becaus is awsome
What are five crustaceans?
Five examples of crustaceans: crabs, lobsters, barnacles, shrimps, and krill Barnacles are not a crustacean.
What two characteristics do crabs and barnacles share that limpets do not?
Both crabs and barnacles have claws and also both shed their external skeleton, the limpets do not.
Do crabs eat barnecles?
Crabs do eat other crustaceans like barnacles, krill, shrimp and crayfish.
Which animals are crustaceans?
Crabs, hermit crabs, ghost shrimp, shrimp, barnacles, lobsters, isopods, amphipods.
What do Anemone Crabs eat?
No. Hermit crabs and sea anemones have a symbiotic relationship that is not the typical prey/predator relationship of most organisms.
