- Source: Aniculus maximus
Aniculus maximus, the hairy yellow hermit crab or large hairy hermit crab, is an aquatic hermit crab of the family Diogenidae.
Description
Their colour ranges from intense red to golden yellow. They have yellow hairy legs. Their shield is marked with a series of furrows.
Distribution
They are found in the Indo-Pacific region.
References
Edmondson, C.H. (1952). Additional Central Pacific crustaceans. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P.Bishop Museum. 21: 67-86.
Reay, P.J. & J. Haig (1990). Coastal hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura) from Kenya, with a review and key to East African species. Bulletin of Marine Science 46(3): 578-589
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
McLaughlin, P. A., Komai, T., Lemaitre, R. & Rahayu, D.L. (2010). Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea. Part I — Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement 23: 5–107
External links
Media related to Aniculus maximus at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Aniculus maximus at Wikispecies
