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Dardanus megistos

Dardanus megistos
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Superfamily: Paguroidea
Family: Diogenidae
Genus: Dardanus
Species: D. megistos
Binomial name
Dardanus megistos
J. F. W. Herbst, 1804 

Dardanus megistos, the white-spotted hermit crab or spotted hermit crab, is a species of hermit crab, living in reefs in the Indo-Pacific region from Africa to the South China Sea and Hawaii.Dardanus megistos can attain a maximum size of 8 inches (20 cm).

D. megistos at Komodo, Indonesia

D. megistos at Iriomote Island, Japan

D. megistos at Northwest Hawaiian Islands


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