Clibanarius

Clibanarius
Clibanarius erythropus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Diogenidae
Genus: Clibanarius
Dana, 1852
Diversity
About 60 species

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. The feeding rates of Clibanarius species change with temperature which, given their broad distributions, may have considerable consequences for the stability reef systems as sea temperatures rise in the future.[1]

They are omnivores, but mostly prey on small animals and scavenge carrion.[2]

Species

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As of 2009, about sixty 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.[2]

The Clibanarius species are:

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

References

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  1. ^ Pearson, Ryan M.; Jinks, Kristin I.; Brown, Christopher J.; Schlacher, Thomas A.; Connolly, Rod M. (2018). "Functional changes in reef systems in warmer seas: Asymmetrical effects of altered grazing by a widespread crustacean mesograzer". Science of the Total Environment. 644: 976–981. Bibcode:2018ScTEn.644..976P. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.051. hdl:10072/382266. ISSN 0048-9697. PMID 30743894. S2CID 53074768.
  2. ^ a b Patsy McLaughlin & Michael Türkay (2009). Patsy McLaughlin (ed.). "Clibanarius Dana, 1852". World Paguroidea database. World Register of Marine Species. Archived from the original on February 15, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2010.