Dardanus Paul’son, 1875

Remarks. A genus of mostly large hermit crabs found in shallow waters to deeper slopes, and in tropical, subtropical, to temperate latitudes. Forty-four valid species have been described (McLaughlin et al., 2010; Rahayu, 2010), of which 30 are found in the Indo-West Pacific and 12 were previously reported from the Philippines. The PANGLAO 2004 expedition collected 8 of them and added one new record. Moreover, the species D. lagopodes is determined to be a species complex and is now formally separated into three distinct species, with D. sanguinolentus Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) revalidated and a new species described, thus bringing the total species count in the Philippines to 15.