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| Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Order Decapoda > Anomurans > hermit crabs |
| Spotted
orange hermit crab Dardanus megistos Family Diogenidae updated Dec 10 Where seen? This bright orange hermit crab with white spots is seldom seen, on reefs and rubble on some of our shores. Features: Body 4-8cm long. Body and limbs usually red or orange with black-edged white spots. It has hairy pincers, usually the left is larger than the right. Eyes large dark without white spot, with white rim on stout dark red stalks. Short antennae and tips orange or red. Long antennae white. |
 Pulau Sekudu, Jun 03 |
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Spotted orange hermit crabs on Singapore shores
 Long white antennae. Tanah Merah, Sep 10 |
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 Tanah Merah, Jun 09 |
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| Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to liwaliw for identifying this hermit crab on wildsingapore flickr. Links
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IKAN-Unterwasserachiv, Frankfurt. 321 pp.|
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