Calcinus laevimanus
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Calcinus laevimanus is a hermit crab from the tropical Indo-Pacific . It is nocturnal, inhabits coral reefs and lives on shallow tidal pools down to a depth of ten meters. Most common are the crabs just below the intertidal zone . Larger specimens prefer the lower depth range.
features
The carapace of the crabs is blue-gray, the legs and claws are brown with white tips, eyes and stalks are blue, the antennae are orange. Calcinus elegans belongs to the family of left-handed hermit crabs (Diogenidae). His left scissors are significantly larger than the right. Calcinus laevimanus becomes about four inches long.
The crabs are omnivores and feed on algae, carrion and all sorts of small invertebrates.
Aquaristics
Calcinus laevimanus is quite often imported for aquarium keeping and is easy to keep.
literature
- Hans A. Baensch / Robert A. Patzner: Mergus Sea Water Atlas Volume 5. Mergus-Verlag, Melle, ISBN 3-88244-115-1
- Helmut Debelius : Krebsführer , Jahr Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-86132-504-7 .
- Svein A. Fosså / Alf Jacob Nilsen: Coral reef aquarium. Volume 6, Birgit Schmettkamp Verlag, Bornheim 1998, ISBN 3928819186
