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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Eucarida (Crabs, Crayfish, Shrimp, etc.) (Eucarida) » Crabs, Crayfishes, Lobsters, Prawns, and Shrimp (Decapoda) » Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs (Anomura) » Hermit Crabs (Paguroidea) » Diogenidae » Petrochirus » Petrochirus diogenes
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Giant Hermit Crab (Petrochirus diogenes) - Petrochirus diogenes
Copyright © 2010 Livan

Giant Hermit Crab (Petrochirus diogenes) - Petrochirus diogenes
Bill Baggs State Park, Key Biscayne, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA
August 14, 2007

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Contributed by Livan on 11 February, 2010 - 6:41am
Last updated 31 August, 2016 - 11:18pm

Moved
Moved from Hermit Crabs. Okay, I'm pretty sure this is right. I don't see what else it could be.
… Aaron Hunt, 31 August, 2016 - 11:18pm login or register to post comments

Sure looks it
If you can give me a source for the ID (to rule out any close relatives), I'll gladly make the guide page and move these images.
… Aaron Hunt, 27 August, 2015 - 11:29am login or register to post comments

 
ID Source
Sorry I had not seen this post from last year. Thank you for making the new page. I obtained the ID from the following reference book:

"REEF CREATURE Identification, Florida Caribbean Bahamas" by Paul Humann & Ned Deloach; New World Publications, Inc. Second edition 2002. (Page198-99)
… Livan, 3 September, 2016 - 11:27am login or register to post comments

 
Range note.
According to the above reference its range extends beyond the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean and the Bahamas. I can confirm the location stated on the photos located on the Atlantic (east) coast of FL.
… Livan, 3 September, 2016 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
That's actually how I made my ID too. I looked at that book a lot during my trip to the Caribbean last fall but I don't have a copy so I made the ID from memory. Size of the species is given as 5-8" if I recall correctly.
… Aaron Hunt, 3 September, 2016 - 12:28pm login or register to post comments

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