Dardanus (genus)
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Dardanus is a genus
of hermit crab
s belonging to the Diogenidae family, containing the following species:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crabs are decapod crustaceans of the superfamily Paguroidea. Most of the 1100 species possess an asymmetrical abdomen which is concealed in an empty gastropod shell that is carried around by the hermit crab.-Description:...
s belonging to the Diogenidae family, containing the following species:
- Dardanus arrosor (Herbst, 1796)
- Dardanus aspersus (Berthold, 1846)
- Dardanus australis Forest & Morgan, 1991
- Dardanus brachyops Forest, 1963
- Dardanus calidusDardanus calidusDardanus calidus is a species of hermit crab.-Description:D. calidus can grow to a length of . It uses large gastropod shells, such as those of Tonna galea and Charonia species, which it often decorates with one or more sea anemones of the species Calliactis parasitica...
(Risso, 1827) - Dardanus callichela Cook, 1989
- Dardanus corrugatus Cook, 1989
- Dardanus crassimanus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1836)
- Dardanus dearmatus Henderson, 1888
- Dardanus deformis H. Milne-Edwards, 1836
- Dardanus fucosus Biffar & Provenzano, 1972
- Dardanus gemmatusDardanus gemmatusDardanus gemmatus, the jeweled anemone hermit crab, is a species of hermit crab native to tropical reefs surrounding the Indo-Pacific, typically at depths of ....
(H. Milne-Edwards, 1836) - Dardanus guttatus (Olivier, 1812)
- Dardanus hessii (Miers, 1884)
- Dardanus imbricatus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1848)
- Dardanus imperator (Miers, 1881)
- Dardanus impressus (De Haan, 1849)
- Dardanus insignis (de Saussure, 1858)
- Dardanus jacquesi Asakura & Hirayama, 2002
- Dardanus janethaigae Ayon & Hendrickx, 2009
- Dardanus jordani Schmitt, 1921
- Dardanus lagopodes (Forskål, 1775)
- Dardanus longior Asakura, 2006
- Dardanus magdalenensis Ayon & Hendrickx, 2009
- Dardanus megistosDardanus megistosDardanus megistos, the white-spotted hermit crab or spotted hermit crab, is a species of hermit crab, living in reefs in the Indo-Pacific region from Africa to the South China Sea and Hawaii. Dardanus megistos can attain a maximum size of....
(Herbst, 1804) - Dardanus nudus Ayon & Hendrickx, 2009
- Dardanus pectinatus (Ortmann, 1892)
- Dardanus pedunculatusDardanus pedunculatusDardanus pedunculatus, the anemone hermit crab, is a species of hermit crab from the Indo-Pacific region. It lives at depths of up to 27 m and collects sea anemones to place on its shell for defence.-Distribution:...
(Herbst, 1804) - Dardanus pilosus Ayon & Hendrickx, 2009
- Dardanus robustus Asakura, 2006
- Dardanus rufus Buitendijk, 1937
- Dardanus sanguinocarpus Degener, 1925
- Dardanus scutellatus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1848)
- Dardanus setifer (H. Milne-Edwards, 1848)
- Dardanus sinistripes (Stimpson, 1859)
- Dardanus squarrosus Cook, 1989
- Dardanus stimpsoni Ayon & Hendrickx, 2009
- Dardanus sulcatus Edmondson, 1925
- Dardanus tinctor (Forskal, 1775)
- Dardanus umbella Asakura, 2006
- Dardanus undulatus (Balss, 1921)
- Dardanus venosus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1848)
- Dardanus vulnerans (Thallwitz, 1892)
- Dardanus woodmasoni (Alcock, 1905)