this is a shell 🐚
this is a hermit crab: {#c4813a ⍾}
or maybe it isn't? but a shell is a shell is a shell is a shell. hell. a list of hermit crab shells:
- natural gastropod shells (most common: periwinkles, whelks, moon snails, turbo, nerites, etc.)
- shells of other mollusks (bivalves)
- hollow pieces of wood
- hollow stones or coral rubble
- pieces of bamboo
- glass bottles and bottle caps
- plastic bottle caps and containers
- metal bottle caps
- pen caps and marker caps
- shotgun shells and bullet casings
- small tin cans
- a sardine tin
- broken pottery shards
- seashell fragments (partial shells, stacked or wedged)
- golf balls
- human teeth
- lego pieces
- lightbulbs
- snail shells borrowed from land species