Diogenes heteropsammicola
Appearance
Diogenes heteropsammicola | |
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A, an individual in an aquarium, carrying the coral. B, an individual removed from its host coral. Scale bar: 1 mm. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Family: | Diogenidae |
Genus: | Diogenes |
Species: | D. heteropsammicola
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Binomial name | |
Diogenes heteropsammicola Igawa & Kato 2017[1]
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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]
References
External links
- Media related to Diogenes heteropsammicola at Wikimedia Commons