Pagurodofleinia doederleini
Amazing fact
The Jingorou hermit crab can avoid moving shells because an anemone secretes fluid that enlarges its shell.
葛西臨海水族園
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The Jingorou hermit crab can avoid moving shells because an anemone secretes fluid that enlarges its shell.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Pagurodofleinia doederleini
- Scientific name
- Pagurodofleinia doederleini
- Japanese name
- ジンゴロウヤドカリ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Paguridae
- Genus
- Pagurodofleinia
It lives in fairly deep waters of places like Suruga Bay, the Kumano Sea and Tosa Bay.
It keeps a hime-kinkara sea anemone on top of the shell it carries, and the two live together.
How the Pagurodofleinia doederleini lives
It lives on sandy and muddy seabeds. It mainly carries shells of sea snails in the ebisugai group. The venom of the anemone on its shell can defend it from predators such as octopuses. When changing shells, it sometimes transfers the anemone to the new shell too.
葛西臨海水族園名古屋港水族館Basic data
- Range
- Suruga Bay, the Kumano Sea, and Tosa Bay
Where the Pagurodofleinia doederleini 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 — ジンゴロウヤドカリChecked: 2026-11-04
- 葛西臨海水族園 — ジンゴロウヤドカリとイソギンチャクのお互い得するくらしかたChecked: 2026-11-07
- 名古屋港水族館 — 秘めたパワーを持っています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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