Mauve Eyed Hermit Crab
Amazing fact
The mauve-eyed hermit crab chooses shells with wide openings as its home.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海
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The mauve-eyed hermit crab chooses shells with wide openings as its home.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Mauve Eyed Hermit Crab
- Scientific name
- Dardanus crassimanus
- Japanese name
- イシダタミヤドカリ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Diogenidae
- Genus
- Dardanus
It lives from Tokyo Bay to the coasts of Kyushu, and from Jeju Island and Taiwan to India and South Africa.
There is a purple spot at the base of the carpus, one of the segments of its legs.
How the Mauve Eyed Hermit Crab lives
It comes out and is active during the day. It lives on the slopes of rocky reefs and coral reefs.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Tokyo Bay to the Kyushu coast, Amakusa Sea, Jeju Island, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka, and South Africa
Where the Mauve Eyed Hermit Crab has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — イシダタミヤドカリChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — イシダタミヤドカリChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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