Clibanarius

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Clibanarius
File:Clibanarius erythropus 2009 G3.jpg
Clibanarius erythropus
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Clibanarius

Dana, 1852
Diversity
About 60 species

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Clibanarius is a genus of hermit crabs in the family Diogenidae. Like other hermit crabs, their abdomen is soft-shelled and sheltered in a gastropod shell. Typically marine like all their relatives, the genus includes C. fonticola, the only known hermit crab species that spends all its life in freshwater.

They are omnivores, but mostly prey on small animals and scavenge carrion.[1]

Species

As of 2009, about 60 species are recognized in Clibanarius; new species are discovered and described occasionally. Others have been placed here at one time or another but are now assigned to other genera of Diogenidae, namely Bathynarius, Calcinus, Paguristes, Strigopagurus and Trizopagurus.[1]

The Clibanarius species are:

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Clibanarius elongatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1848) is a nomen dubium.

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