Diogenidae Explained

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,^[1] and a further 46 extinct species, making it the second-largest family of marine hermit crabs, after the Paguridae.^[2]

Genera

• Allodardanus Haig & Provenzano, 1965
• Aniculus Dana, 1852
• Areopaguristes Rahayu & McLaughlin, 2010
• †Annuntidiogenes Fraaije, Van Bakel, Jagt & Artal, 2008
• Bathynarius Forest, 1989
• Calcinus Dana, 1851
• Cancellus H. Milne-Edwards, 1836
• Ciliopagurus Forest, 1995
• Clibanarius Dana, 1852
• Dardanus Paul'son, 1875
• Diogenes Dana, 1851
• †Eocalcinus Vía, 1959
• Isocheles Stimpson, 1858
• Loxopagurus Forest, 1964
• Paguristes Dana, 1851
• Paguropsis Henderson, 1888
• †Parapaguristes Bishop, 1986
• Petrochirus Stimpson, 1858
• Pseudopaguristes McLaughlin, 2002
• Pseudopagurus Forest, 1952
• Stratiotes Thomson, 1899 – see Areopaguristes
• †Striadiogenes Garassino, De Angeli & Pasini, 2009
• Strigopagurus Forest, 1995
• Tisea Morgan & Forest, 1991
• Trizopagurus Forest, 1952

External links

• • • Patsy McLaughlin & Michael Türkay . 2011 . Diogenidae . Paguroidea . 106736.

Notes and References

1. Patsy A. McLaughlin . Tomoyuki Komai . Rafael Lemaitre . Dwi Listyo Rahayu . 2010 . Martyn E. Y. Low . S. H. Tan . Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea . . Suppl. 23 . 5–107 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20120122104557/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz005-107.pdf . 2012-01-22.
2. Web site: Family Diogenidae Ortmann, 1892 . . . September 9, 2009.