Dardanus insignis Red Brocade Hermit Crab

Dardanus insignis is commonly referred to as Red Brocade Hermit Crab. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Gabriel Paladino Ibáñez, Uruguay

Dardanus insignis,Red brocade hermit crab, Rocha, Uruguay 2021

Hermit crab occupying Pachycymbiola brasiliana, Scale bar: 10mm, shell size: 105mm Artisanal fishing boats.Cerro de Los Pescadores (Punta del Diablo), Rocha, Uruguay
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lexID:: 16057
AphiaID:: 367585

Scientific:: Dardanus insignis
German:: Brokatroter Einsiedlerkrebs
English:: Red Brocade Hermit Crab

Category:: Heremietkrabben

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Diogenidae (Family) > Dardanus (Genus) > insignis (Species)
Initial determination:: (de Saussure, ), 1857

Occurrence:: Guadeloupe, Barbados, Argentina, Brazil, Florida, French Guiana, Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, Uruguay, USA, West-Atlantic Ocean
Sea depth:: 10 - 366 Meter
Habitats:: Rubble floors, Stony soils
Temperature:: 12,2 °F - 24,6 °F (12,2°C - 24,6°C)
Food:: No reliable information available, omnivore
Difficulty:: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

More related species in this lexicon:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2023-11-10 20:41:51
Last edit:: 2023-11-10 21:05:14

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Dardanus insignis (de Saussure, 1857)

The Red Brocade Hermit Crab occupying the shell of Pachycymbiola brasiliana.

Synonymised names:
Aniculus petersii A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pagurus insignis de Saussure, 1857 · unaccepted > superseded combination

External links

crabdatabase (en). Abgerufen am 10.11.2023.
EOL (en). Abgerufen am 10.11.2023.
sealifebase (en). Abgerufen am 10.11.2023.
treatment (en). Abgerufen am 10.11.2023.
treatment (en). Abgerufen am 10.11.2023.

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Dardanus insignis,Red brocade hermit crab, Rocha, Uruguay 2021

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