🦋 Family

Diogenidae

32 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Diogenidae

Calcinus latens is a small dimorphic hermit crab found in shallow tropical Indo-Pacific coral reefs.

Calcinus laevimanus is an aggressive tropical Indo-Pacific hermit crab that competes for preferred empty gastropod shells.

Calcinus guamensis is a small Indo-Pacific hermit crab that acts as an important scavenger in coral reef ecosystems.

Calcinus morgani is a distinct hermit crab species found in Indo-Pacific coral reef intertidal zones.

Calcinus verrillii is a Bermuda-native hermit crab that sometimes becomes a stationary filter feeder in attached gastropod tubes.

Petrochirus diogenes, the giant hermit crab, is a large marine hermit crab from the Caribbean that gets shells by eating conchs.

Diogenes pugilator is a small hermit crab native to the eastern Atlantic, with a notably enlarged left chela.

Diogenes senex is a left-handed hermit crab endemic to Australia, first described by Camill Heller in 1865.

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Ocypodidae 39 species Palaemonidae 30 species Cambaridae 24 species Portunidae 24 species Varunidae 18 species Palinuridae 17 species Paguridae 15 species Coenobitidae 13 species

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