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Hermit Crabs (54)

General descriptionHermit crabs are decapod crustaceans of the superfamily Paguroidea. There are about five hundred known species of hermit crabs in the world, most of which are aquatic and live in saltwater at depths ranging from shallow coral reefs and shorelines to deep sea bottoms.

Hermit crabs are not "true crabs." They have a smaller, soft abdomen which they protect by living in an empty snail shell. Like all other crustacean Hermit Crabs have an exoskeleton. This hard exoskeleton only covers [Further read]


Aniculus(3), Calcinus(10), Ciliopagurus(1), Clibanarius(16), Dardanus(8), Diogenes(2), Einsiedler(1), Paguristes(1), Paguritta(1), Pagurixus(1), Pagurus(4), Petrochirus(1), Phimochirus(1), Pylopaguropsis(4)

Aniculus (3)
A. maximus

Hermit crab
A. retipes

Hermit Crab
A. ursus

hermit crab
[Nach Oben]
Calcinus (10)
C. elegans

Electric Blue Hermit Crab
C. gaimardii

Hermit crab
C. laevimanus

Hermit Crab
C. latens

Hermit Crab
C. minutus

C. morgani (Rahayu & Forest, 1999)

Calcinus morgani
C. seurati

Hermit Crab
C. sp. 2

Hermit Crab
C. talismani

Hermit crabs
C. tibicen

Orangeclaw Hermit Crab
[Nach Oben]
Ciliopagurus (1)
C. strigatus (Herbst, 1804)

Red banded Hermit Crab, Red striped Hermit Crab, Halloween Hermit Crab, Cone Shell Hermit Crab
[Nach Oben]
Clibanarius (16)
C. ambonensis

Ambon hermit crab
C. antillensis

Hermit Crab
C. digueti

Red Leg Hermit Equal Handed Hermit
C. englaucus

Hermit Crab
C. erythropus

hermit crab
C. humilis

Clibanarius humilis
C. longitarsus

Hermit Crab
C. signatus

tropical hermit crab
C. snelliusi

C. sp. 01

Striped hermit crab
C. sp. 02

Clibanarius
C. sp. 03

brown Hermitcrab
C. striolatus

Danas hermit crab
C. tricolor

Blue Legged Hermit Crab
C. virescens

Coastal hermit crabs
C. vittatus

Thinstripe Hermit
[Nach Oben]
Dardanus (8)
D. calidus

Red Hermit Crab
D. deformis

Pale anemone hermit
D. guttatus

Blue knee Hermit crab
D. lagopodes

Hermit crab
D. megistos

White spotted hermit crab
D. pedunculatus

Parasit anemone hermit crab
D. spezies

D. venosus

Hermit Crab
[Nach Oben]
Diogenes (2)
D. klaasi

Hermit Crab
D. sp.

Hermit Crab
[Nach Oben]
Einsiedler (1)
E. unbekannter Art

Hermit Crab
[Nach Oben]
Paguristes (1)
P. cadenati

Red Reef Hermit
[Nach Oben]
Paguritta (1)
P. gracilipes

Hermit Crab
[Nach Oben]
Pagurixus (1)
P. sp.

Hermit Crab
[Nach Oben]
Pagurus (4)
P. anachoretus

P. bernhardus

Common Hermit Crab
P. prideauxi

Hermit Crab
P. sp. 01

Hermit Crab
[Nach Oben]
Petrochirus (1)
P. diogenes

Giant hermit
[Nach Oben]
Phimochirus (1)
P. operculatus

Hermit Crab
[Nach Oben]
Pylopaguropsis (4)
P. fimbriata

Hermit Crab
P. lewinsohni

Hermit Crab
P. sp.

Pylopaguropsis sp.
P. speciosa

Hermit Crab
[Nach Oben]

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