#4511 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

Saint Piran's Hermit Crab

Clibanarius erythropus

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Susanne Vogel · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © lizard--o_o · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © marianne_annon · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © eliegaget · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Cales Coves:© Yves Bas · CC BY 4.0
7. Туапсе, Краснодарский край, RU:© daria0104 · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Oliva, 46780, Valencia, España:© José F. F. · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, Greece:© Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. St Julian's:© Abbie Julia Phelps · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Clibanarius erythropus is a species of hermit crab that lives in rockpools and sublittoral waters. It is found in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from the Azores to Brittany, the Channel Islands and as far north as the south Cornwall coast. 6 in).

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,500iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
5,500 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Pierre André Latreille in 1818 (208 years ago).