Tags: Crustacean.

The Diogenidae are a family of hermit crabs sometimes known as left-handed hermit crabs because in contrast to most other hermit crabs its left chela (claw) is enlarged instead of the right. It comprises 429 extant species and a further 46 extinct species making it the second-largest family of marine hermit crabs after the Paguridae.

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