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Calcinus elegans in life
In life — Electric Blue Hermit Crab, photographed by an iNaturalist observer, not this specimen. (c) Eiji Myorin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Eiji Myorin
BPBM 3461Invertebrate Zoology

Calcinus elegans

Electric Blue Hermit Crab

As recorded: Calcinus elegans (H.Milne-Edwards, 1836)

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Diogenidae

Collected by
C.H. Edmondson
Locality
Waimea
Island
Kauaʻi
Region
United States
Record type
Preserved specimen
64 Bishop specimens of Calcinus elegansSpecies page ›

Cite this specimen

Calcinus elegans. BPBM 3461. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 35675530. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/s/3461.

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