- Blue-Legged Hermit Crab
Taxobox
name = Blue-Legged Hermit CrabITIS|ID=98191|taxon="Clibanarius tricolor"|year=2008|date=29 Feb]
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropoda
subphylum =Crustacea
classis =Malacostraca
ordo =Decapoda
infraordo =Anomura
familia =Diogenidae
genus = "Clibanarius "
species = "C. tricolor"
binomial = "Clibanarius tricolor"
binomial_authority = Gibbes, 1850The Blue-Legged
Hermit Crab , also known as the Tricolor Hermit, Blueleg Reef Hermit, Equal Handed Hermit, or the Blueleg Hermit is a popular aquarium hermit crab native to the shallow waters of theCaribbean Sea . It has blue legs with red banding. Because of its coloration and because of its ability to clean up tanks, it is a popular, cheap aquarium specimen.cite web |url=http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/r90012.htm |title=FishProfiles.com - Clibanarius tricolor |accessdate=2008-02-28 |format= |work=] It feeds on green hair algae andcyanobacteria .cite web |url=http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=16&cat=1898&articleid=2103 |title=Blue Leg Hermit Crab (Clibanarius tricolor) |accessdate=2008-02-28 |format= |work=]References
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