Aniculus

Aniculus
Hairy yellow hermit crab (Aniculus maximus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Anomura
Family:	Diogenidae
Genus:	Aniculus Dana, 1852

Aniculus is a genus of aquatic hermit crab of the family Diogenidae.

Species

The following species are currently accepted within Aniculus:

• Aniculus aniculus (J. C. Fabricius, 1787)
• Stimpson, 1858 McLaughlin & Hoover, 1996
• Forest, 1984 Aniculus ursus
• Aniculus maximus (Olivier, 1812)
• Aniculus erythraeus Edmondson, 1952
• Aniculus miyakei Aniculus elegans
• Forest, 1984 Forest, 1984
• Aniculus retipes Aniculus hopperae
• Lewinsohn, 1982 Aniculus sibogae

References

• Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus Crustaceorum, &c. Conspectus of the Crustacea of the Exploring Expedition under Capt. Wilkes, U.S.N. Paguridea, continued, and Subtribe Megalopidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 6: 6-10.
• Bouvier, E.L. (1915). Decapodes marcheurs (Reptantia) et Stomatopodes recueillis a l'ile Maurice par M. Paul Carie. Bull. Scient. Fr. Belg. 3 (48): 178-318
• 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

External links

• Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Aniculus at Wikispecies
• Moscoso, V. (2012). Catálogo de crustáceos decápodos y estomatópodos del Perú. Boletín Instituto del Mar del Perú. 27(1-2): 8-207.