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Clibanarius

Clibanarius is a genus of hermit crabs in the family Diogenidae. Like other hermit crabs, their abdomen is soft-shelled and sheltered in a gastropod shell. Typically marine like all their relatives, the genus includes C. fonticola, the only known hermit crab species that spends all its life in freshwater. The feeding rates of Clibanarius species change with temperature which, given their broad distributions, may have considerable consequences for the stability reef systems as sea temperatures rise in the future.

They are omnivores, but mostly prey on small animals and scavenge carrion.

Species

As of 2025, about sixty valid species are recognized in Clibanarius; new species are discovered and described occasionally. Several former members have been reassigned to other genera of Diogenidae, namely Bathynarius, Calcinus, Paguristes, Strigopagurus and Trizopagurus.

The Clibanarius species are:

Else: Clibanarius elongatus <small>(H. Milne Edwards, 1848)</small> is a nomen dubium.<br/> See also:

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