Clibanarius Dana, 1852

Malay, Maria Celia (Machel) D., Rahayu, Dwi Listyo & Chan, Tin-Yam, 2018, Hermit crabs of the genera Calcinus Dana, Clibanarius Dana, and Dardanus Paul’son from the PANGLAO 2004 Expedition, with description of a new species and a checklist of the hermit crabs of the Philippines (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66, pp. 23-65 : 31

Clibanarius Dana, 1852

Remarks. The species of Clibanarius are restricted to the upper intertidal zone. Members of this genus tend to be tolerant of low salinities, often inhabiting estuaries and mangrove areas. Clibanarius includes the only known species of freshwater hermit crab from Vanuatu ( Cl. fonticola, McLaughlin & Murray, 1990 ). Osawa & Fujita (2008: Table 1 ) provide a comprehensive overview of the geographic range and habitat preferences of the Indo-West Pacific species of Clibanarius .

There are 59 species of Clibanarius listed in McLaughlin et al. (2010), of which 43 are known from the Indo-West Pacific. Previous reports from the Philippines list 11 species (excluding two doubtful records of presumably West Atlantic species, Clibanarius antillensis and Cl. sclopetarius ). The current report adds seven newly recorded species of Clibanarius , bringing the total species count for the Philippines to 18. As in Calcinus and several other diogenid genera, species identifications in Clibanarius depend principally on colour patterns, and in the absence of colouration several species are very difficult to identify.