#4566 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

Thinstripe Hermit Crab

Clibanarius vittatus

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Crabby Taxonomist · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Laura Clark · CC BY 4.0
3. © meigsmiddle · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Cocoa, FL, US:© xtoes · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Ocean Dr, Corpus Christi, TX, US:© ffx579 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 6900 Ocean Dr, Corpus Christi, TX 78412, USA:© samhinojosa12 · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. CORP CHRISTI, TX 78402, USA:© A. Rector · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Cape Charles:© pkinsella1993 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Biloxi Bay, Ocean Springs, MS, US:© Emmett Carstens · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Brevard County, FL, USA:© R Snyder · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The thinstripe hermit crab , Clibanarius vittatus , is a species of hermit crab in the family Diogenidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the western Atlantic Ocean.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,470iNaturalist 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.
5,470 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc in 1802 (224 years ago).