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 Diogenes

Diogenes pugilator (Roux, 1829)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Diogenes*	Dana, 1851	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Pagurus pugilator*	Roux, 1829	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: klein heremietkreeftje; kleine heremiet; kleine heremietkreeft sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Oosterbaan, A. (2003). Strandgids: veldgids voor het Noordzeestrand [Beach guide: field guide for the North Sea coast]. EcoMare, centrum voor wadden en Noordzee: Texel, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-75318-15-4. 65 pp.;Strandvondsten van Gravelines tot Nieuwpoort. Ecogids Tjiftjaf

English: Roux's hermit crab; small hermit crab; south-claw hermit crab 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.;Strandvondsten van Gravelines tot Nieuwpoort. Ecogids Tjiftjaf

French: pagure des sables sources: Strandvondsten van Gravelines tot Nieuwpoort. Ecogids Tjiftjaf

German: Diogeneskrebs; Kleiner Einsiedlerkrebs; Sand-Einsiedler; Strandeinsiedler sources: Strandvondsten van Gravelines tot Nieuwpoort. Ecogids Tjiftjaf;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.

Ukrainian: Рак-самітник діоген

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	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Barnard, K.H. (1950). Descriptive catalogue of South African decapod Crustacea (crabs and shrimps). Annals of the South African Museum. 38: 1-837.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Diogenes pugilator (Roux, 1829). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107199