Calcinus seurati | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Family: | Calcinidae |
Genus: | Calcinus |
Species: | C. seurati
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Binomial name | |
Calcinus seurati
Forest, 1951
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Calcinus seurati, commonly known as Seurat's hermit crab or whitebanded hermit, is a species of hermit crab in the family Diogenidae. [1] It was first described by French carcinologist Jacques Forest in 1951.
Walking legs banded black and white, claws light or dark gray. [2]
Found in high intertidal pools in the Pacific Ocean, from the Hawaiian Islands to Taiwan. [3]