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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Malacostracans
  5. Decapods
  6. Anomurans
  7. Hermit Crabs

superfamily

Hermit Crabs

Paguroidea

Includes
81 native 30 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Pagurid Hermit Crabs 37 native
  • Left-handed Hermit Crabs 27 native
  • King Crabs 16 native
  • Land Hermit Crabs 1 native
  • Deepwater Hermit Crabs

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native hermit crabs All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Blueband Hermit Crab Pagurus samuelis 11,417 observations
  • Pacific Hairy Hermit Crab Pagurus hirsutiusculus 9,017 observations
  • Left-handed Hermit Crab Calcinus laevimanus 1,620 observations
  • Flat-clawed Hermit Crab Pagurus pollicaris 1,516 observations
  • Hidden Hermit Crab Calcinus latens 979 observations
  • Painted Hermit Crab Calcinus pictus 424 observations
  • Laurent's Hermit Crab Calcinus laurentae 156 observations
  • Zebra Hermit Crab Clibanarius zebra 97 observations
  • Hairy Hermit Crab Paguristes karenae 67 observations

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