Clibanarius fonticola is a species of hermit crab from Vanuatu. It lives exclusively in fresh water, the only hermit crab in the world to do so. While a number of other hermit crabs are terrestrial or live in estuarine habitats, and certain brackish water species can tolerate low salinity levels for a time, no other hermit crab spends its entire life in fresh water; the only other fully freshwater anomurans are the South American aeglids.[2][3]
Clibanarius fonticola lives on the island of Espiritu Santo, in a pool fed by springs near the village of Matevulu, close to an abandoned airstrip. Adults of this species all use shells of Clithon corona.[2]
^Patsy McLaughlin (2009). P. McLaughlin (ed.). "Clibanarius fonticola McLaughlin & Murray, 1990". World Paguroidea database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
^ abPatsy A. McLaughlin & Talbot Murray (1990). "Clibanarius fonticola, new species (Anomura: Paguridea: Diogenidae), from a fresh-water pool on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 10 (4): 695–702. doi:10.2307/1548413. JSTOR 1548413.
^Masayuki Osawa & Yoshihisa Fujita (2008). "Clibanarius ambonensis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, south-western Japan" (PDF). JMBA2 - Biodiversity Records. 1: e16. Bibcode:2008MBdR....1E..16O. doi:10.1017/S1755267206001667. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
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