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Hermit Crab
Hermit Crab in Petit Planet: habitat, time, weather and recorded one-, two- and three-star selling prices. Checked against the community wiki.
At a glance
In pursuit of the perfect "house," it will go as far as killing a sea snail.
Where and when to find it
- Habitat
- Intertidal Zone
- Distribution
- All Regions
- Time
- All Day
- Weather
- Any Weather
- Season
- Year-Round
- Type
- Hermit Crab
- Minimum size
- 5.4
- Maximum size
- 9
Selling prices
- ★ catch
- 25 Dough
- ★★ catch
- 28 Dough
- ★★★ catch
- 32 Dough
Catalog sorting uses the one-star price. A blank source value is shown as not recorded, rather than estimated.
Omnipedia
- Scientific name
- Paguristes cadentai
- Region
- Intertidal Zone
Hermit crabs have very soft abdomens and must hide in shells for protection. Sometimes, to find the right "house," they would even murder the original owner of the place - a hapless sea snall whose shell just so happens to be perfect for the hermit.
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Sources & version
Adapted from The Petit Planet Wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Checked 2026-10-20. Source revision 35128 (2026-10-19). These are beta records; values can change. Unrecorded values remain unknown.