Clibanarius is a genus of hermit crabs in the family Diogenidae. Like other hermit crabs, their abdomen is soft-shelled and sheltered in a gastropod shell. Typically marine like all their relatives, the genus includes C. fonticola, the only known hermit crab species that spends all its life in freshwater. The feeding rates of Clibanarius species change with temperature which, given their broad distributions, may have considerable consequences for the stability reef systems as sea temperatures rise in the future.[1]
They are omnivores, but mostly prey on small animals and scavenge carrion.[2]
^Pearson, Ryan M.; Jinks, Kristin I.; Brown, Christopher J.; Schlacher, Thomas A.; Connolly, Rod M. (2018). "Functional changes in reef systems in warmer seas: Asymmetrical effects of altered grazing by a widespread crustacean mesograzer". Science of the Total Environment. 644: 976–981. Bibcode:2018ScTEn.644..976P. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.051. hdl:10072/382266. ISSN 0048-9697. PMID 30743894. S2CID 53074768.
^Patsy McLaughlin & Michael Türkay (2009). Patsy McLaughlin (ed.). "Clibanarius Dana, 1852". World Paguroidea database. World Register of Marine Species. Archived from the original on February 15, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
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