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Blue-legged Hermit Crab
Clibanarius tricolor
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.
From the article Clibanarius tricolor on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
C. tricolor has blue legs with red banding between each segment, and reaches to 2 centimeters (0.79 in) in size. Males of this species as most other hermit crab species are bigger than the females.
What it does
C. tricolor is a detritivore, eating dead plants and animals that would otherwise clog the reef. It also eats green hair algae, cyanobacteria and seaweed. It even sifts through sand looking for food, cleaning the sand in the process.
Wikipedia: “Feeding”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Clibanarius tricolor in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 295217.