Clibanarius tricolor (Gibbes, 1850) is a animal in the Diogenidae family, order Decapoda, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

Photo of Clibanarius tricolor (Gibbes, 1850) (Clibanarius tricolor (Gibbes, 1850))
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Clibanarius tricolor (Gibbes, 1850)

Clibanarius tricolor (Gibbes, 1850)

Clibanarius tricolor is a hermit crab with blue banded legs, growing to 2 cm, where males are larger than females.

Family
Genus
Clibanarius
Order
Decapoda
Class
Malacostraca

About Clibanarius tricolor (Gibbes, 1850)

This species, scientifically named Clibanarius tricolor (Gibbes, 1850), has blue legs marked with red banding between each leg segment. Adults of this species grow up to 2 centimeters (0.79 inches) in size. Like most other hermit crab species, male Clibanarius tricolor are larger than females of the species.

Photo: (c) Dan Schofield, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Dan Schofield · cc-by

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Malacostraca Decapoda Diogenidae Clibanarius

More from Diogenidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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