Diogenes heteropsammicola

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Diogenes heteropsammicola
A, an individual in an aquarium, carrying the coral; B, an individual removed from its host coral. Scale bar: 1 mm.
A, an individual in an aquarium, carrying the coral. B, an individual removed from its host coral. Scale bar: 1 mm.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Diogenidae
Genus: Diogenes
Species:
D. heteropsammicola
Binomial name
Diogenes heteropsammicola
Igawa & Kato 2017[1]

Diogenes heteropsammicola is a

Aspidosiphon, which normally occupy the corals that were previously occupied by crabs.[1]

The discoverers of this species are Momoko Igawa and Makoto Kato of Kyoto University, Japan.[1]

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