#4492 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Diogenes curvimanus
Diogenes curvimanus
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Tywyn, UK
📍 Livorno, Toscana, IT
📍 Quend
📍 Plouhinec, France
📍 Golfe de Gascogne, Saint-Georges-d'Oléron, FR
📍 Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Tim Johnson · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Tywyn, UK:© Avery · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Livorno, Toscana, IT:© Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Quend:© ubro · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Plouhinec, France:© Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Golfe de Gascogne, Saint-Georges-d'Oléron, FR:© Quentin His · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR:© Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
base stats
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
- Spotted 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 138 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Diogenes curvimanus
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Diogenidae
- sightings in NL
- 7
- sightings in Europe
- 95
- sightings worldwide
- 138
- GBIF records in NL
- 9
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Diogenidae
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🇳🇱 Kleine heremietkreeft
Diogenes pugilator
👀 58 in NL
#4511 📷 10Saint Piran's Hermit Crab
Clibanarius erythropus
🌍 5.5k seen
#4566 📷 10Thinstripe Hermit Crab
Clibanarius vittatus
🌍 5.5k seen
#4526 📷 10Red Hermit Crab
🇳🇱 Rode heremietkreeft
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🌍 1.5k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1557612, Wikidata Q135455603, GBIF 11618378. Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.