Biology:Diogenes senex

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Short description: Species of crustacean

Diogenes senex
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Diogenidae
Genus: Diogenes
Species:
D. senex
Binomial name
Diogenes senex
Heller, 1865 [1]

Diogenes senex is a species of left handed hermit crab (family Diogenidae) first described in 1865 by Camill Heller.[1][2]

It is endemic to Australia, where it is found in estuaries, and intertidal flats in the muddy sands of subtidal zones of the coasts of New South Wales, the Northern Territory, and Queensland.[1]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q13573253 entry