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South-claw Hermit Crab

Diogenes pugilator

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

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 456, February 337, March 528, April 830, May 1,197, June 1,305, July 1,396, August 1,201, September 882, October 658, November 360, December 281.
United States9,430
Alaska9,430
Portugal99
Greece74
FARO60
Netherlands46
SETÚBAL33
Epirus-Western Macedonia32
Italy31
Ukraine30

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

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassMalacostracans · Malacostraca
OrderDecapods · Decapoda
FamilyLeft-handed Hermit Crabs · Diogenidae
GenusDiogenes

Sources

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