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Blue-legged Hermit Crab

Clibanarius tricolor

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) garumsey, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.

United States	224
Mexico	68
Quintana Roo	68
Puerto Rico	10
United States Virgin Islands	6

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Malacostracans · Malacostraca
Order	Decapods · Decapoda
Family	Left-handed Hermit Crabs · Diogenidae
Genus	Clibanarius

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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