Pagurus Pagurus Pagurus is a genus of hermit crabs in the family Paguridae. Like other hermit crabs, their abdomen is not calcified and they use snail shells as portable homes. These marine decapod crustaceans are omnivorous, but mostly prey on small animals and scavenge carrion. "Trigonocheirus" and "Pagurixus" used to be considered subgenera of "Pagurus", but the former is nowadays included in "Orthopagurus", while the latter has been separated as a distinct genus. Some 170 species are presently placed in "Pagurus"; many others have been placed here at one time or another but are now assigned to other genera of Paguroidea.
Hermit of Tong Hermit of Tong "The Hermit of Tong" is a missing/lost masterpiece of the English artist, William Armfield Hobday (1771–1831). The painting is a portrait of Carolus, aka Charles Evans, resident Hermit on the estate of Colonel Durant, Tong Castle, Shropshire, England. In the biography of William Armfield Hobday, printed in Arnolds' Library of the Fine Arts in 1831, the painting and hermit are described as follows: ""If, as it is said, genius is more felicitous at one time than another, certain it is that Hobday while at Broad Street painted a picture, the like of which he never did before