Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Calcinus explorator
cangrejo ermitaño punta anaranjada, Orange tipped hermit crab, Galápagos hermit crab
Caparace width to 1.2 cm.
Intertidal and Subtidal.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Suborder
Pleocyemata
Superfamily
Paguroidea
Family
Diogenidae
Genus
Calcinus
Species
explorator
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Cocos and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Zimmerman, T.L. (2000) A Field Guide to Crustaceans of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 156 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Peck, S.B. (1994) Diversity and zoogeography of the non-oceanic Crustacea of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (excluding terrestrial Isopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 54-69.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Calcinus explorator", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8435. Accessed 1 November 2026.