- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Crustaceans
- ›Typical Crustaceans
- ›Malacostracans
- ›Decapods, Isopods, and allies
- ›Decapods and Krill
- ›Decapods
- ›Crabs, Lobsters, Shrimps, and Allies
- ›Anomurans
- ›Hermit Crabs
- ›Left-handed Hermit Crabs
- ›Clibanarius
Clibanarius fonticola
Clibanarius fonticola is the only species of hermit crab in the world that lives in fresh water. It is found on the island of Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. While a number of other hermit crabs are terrestrial or live in estuarine habitats, C. fonticola is the only species that spends its life in fresh water. It lives in a pool fed by springs near the village of Matevulu, close to an abandoned airstrip. The adult hermit crabs...
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Clibanarius fonticola 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 706200.