#4458 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

South-claw Hermit Crab

🇳🇱 Kleine heremietkreeft ·Diogenes pugilator

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Bernat Espigulé · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © wishauptr · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Ron Ates · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Xavier Rufray · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

215 in). It is found from the coast of Angola as far north as the North Sea, and eastwards through the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Red Sea. Populations of D. pugilator may be kept in check by the predatory crab Liocarcinus depurator .

base stats

NL sightings 58iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,081iNaturalist 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

Spotted 58 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #23 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
1,081 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Polydore Roux in 1829 (197 years ago).