Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Anomura > Superfamily Paguroidea > Family Diogenidae > Genus Calcinus

Calcinus tubularis (Linnaeus, 1767)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Calcinus*	Dana, 1851	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Cancer tubularis*	Linnaeus, 1767	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: ermità tubular sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

English: hermit crab; ornate hermit crab; variegated hermit crab sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

French: ermite crabe sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

German: Bunter Einsiedler; bunter Einsiedlerkrebs; Röhreneinsiedler; Röhren-Einsiedlerkrebs sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Spanish, Castillian: ermitaño sedentario

Literature

basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	McLaughlin, P. A., Komai, T., Lemaitre, R. & Rahayu, D.L. (2010). Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea. Part I — Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement 23: 5–107.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Calcinus tubularis (Linnaeus, 1767). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107194