Hairy Red Hermit Crab (species: Dardanus lagopodes) in Lizard Island area: all known taxa (Lizard Island Field Guide)

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Dardanus lagopodes

Hairy Red Hermit Crab

©Anne Hoggett: Dardanus lagopodes off Coconut Beach, Lizard Island.

©Anne Hoggett: Dardanus lagopodes off Coconut Beach, Lizard Island. The base of the snail shell is about 6 cm diameter.

©Anne Hoggett: Dardanus lagopodes at Pidgin Point, Lizard Island.

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Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Arthropoda

Class Malacostraca

Order Decapoda

Family Diogenidae

Genus Dardanus

Species Dardanus lagopodes

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Lizard Island Field Guide

Lizard Island area: all known taxa

Colours

Distinguishing features

Legs purple, brown and white with long red/brown hairs; dark charcoal knee patches on walking legs; yellow flash below eyes on the long white ocular peduncles; yellowish antennae.

Eye colour of Lizard Island specimens seems to be consistently black. Graham McMartin has noted that it can vary black and bright blue in this species (correspondence, Jan 2023).