Tags: Crustacean.

Dardanus pedunculatus the anemone hermit crab is a species of hermit crab from the Indo-Pacific region. It lives at depths of up to 27 m and collects sea anemones to place on its shell for defence.

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binomial authority
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst
class
Malacostraca
family
Hermit crab, Diogenidae
genus
Dardanus (genus)
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Cancer pedunculatus (Herbst 1804), *Dardanus haani (Rathbun 1902), *Neopagurus horai (Kaamalaveni 1950), *Pagurus asper (De Haan 1849), *Pagurus sigmoidalis (Zehntner 1894)

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