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Polkadotted Hermit Phimochirus operculatus

Classification

Paguridae [family]
Phimochirus [genus] (3)
operculatus [species]

Classification

Paguridae [family]
Phimochirus [genus] (3)
operculatus [species]

Presence

Recorded on
  • Bonaire
  • Curaçao
  • Presence status
  • Indigenous (1) - Bonaire
  • Indigenous (1) - Curaçao

  • Publications

    • Hazlett, B.A. 1966. Social behavior of the Paguridae and Diogenidae of Curaçao. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire and the Venezuelan Islands 23: 1-143.
    • Hoeksema, B.W. (ed.) 2022. Marine biodiversity of Bonaire: a baseline survey (2nd edition). Preliminary results of the Bonaire Marine Biodiversity expedition. 1-78. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, and ANEMOON Foundation.
    • Legall, N. & Poupin, J. 2017. CRUSTA: Database of Crustacea (Decapoda and Stomatopoda), with special interest for those collected in French overseas territories. [link]
    • Poupin, J. 2018. Les crustacés décapodes des Petites Antilles, avec de nouvelles observations pour Saint Martin, la Guadeloupe, la Martinique. 261. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.