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Diogenes custos (Fabricius, 1798) 
AphiaID: 208711

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder) > Paguroidea (Superfamily) > Diogenidae (Family) > Diogenes (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Diogenes Dana, 1851
Synonymised
taxa
  Cancer custos Herbst, 1804 (inappropriate transfer from Pagurus by Herbst (1804))
Diogenes affinis Henderson, 1893 (junior synonym)
Pagurus custos Fabricius, 1798 (transferred to Diogenes by Dana (1851))
Sources  basis of record: Reay, P.J. & J. Haig (1990). Coastal hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura) from Kenya, with a review and key to East African species. Bulletin of Marine Science 46(3): 578-589 [details]

additional source: McLaughlin, Patsy A.; Komai, Tomoyuki; Lemaitre, Rafael; Listyo Rahayu, Dwi. (2010). Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No. 23: 5-107 [details]

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taxa

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Variety Diogenes custos var. planimanus Henderson, 1893 accepted as Diogenes planimanus Henderson, 1893
Variety Diogenes custos var. waltairensis Kamalaveni, 1950 accepted as Diogenes waltairensis Kamalaveni, 1950
Distribution India [details]
Kenya [details]
Kuwait [details]
Mozambique [details]
North West Arabian Sea [details]
Specimen  Neotype: NHM 1894.7.21.1, locality India (Madras) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208711
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-04-14 10:21:13Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2009-08-17 13:15:28Z  changed  McLaughlin, Patsy
  
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  Citation: McLaughlin, P. (2013). Diogenes custos (Fabricius, 1798). In: Lemaitre, R.; McLaughlin, P. (2013) World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208711 on 2013-05-24
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