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Clibanarius tricolor (tricolor hermit)

Synonyms: Clibanarius brachyops; Clibanarius hebes; Pagurus tricolor

Wikipedia Abstract

Clibanarius tricolor is a hermit crab that lives in shallow water of the Caribbean Sea and is popular in the home aquarium trade. Its common names include blue-legged hermit crab, tricolor hermit crab, blueleg reef hermit crab, equal handed hermit crab and blueleg hermit crab.
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Predators

Calamus bajonado (Jolthead porgy)[1]
Octopus briareus (Caribbean reef octopus)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
♦ 2CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0