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Diogenes heteropsammicola Hermit crab

Diogenes heteropsammicola is commonly referred to as Hermit crab. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.


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lexID:
11090 
AphiaID:
1058772 
Scientific:
Diogenes heteropsammicola 
German:
Einsiedlerkrebs 
English:
Hermit Crab 
Category:
Рак - Отшельник 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Diogenidae (Family) > Diogenes (Genus) > heteropsammicola (Species) 
Initial determination:
Igawa & Kato, 2017 
Occurrence:
Japan, The Ryukyu Islands 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
31 - 80 Meter 
Size:
1,2 cm 
Temperature:
°F - 73.4 °F (°C - 23°C) 
Food:
Filter feeder, Plankton, Symbiotic community 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2017-09-30 14:13:07 

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Igawa & Kato, 2017

Source:
Igawa M, Kato M (2017) A new species of hermit crab, Diogenes heteropsammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis. PLoS ONE 12(9): e0184311. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184311
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Multicrustacea (Superclass) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder) > Paguroidea (Superfamily) > Diogenidae (Family) > Diogenes (Genus) > Diogenes heteropsammicolas (Species)

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