Pagurus lanuginosus
- Water temperature20–22 °C
- Best monthsApril, May, and June
- How commonOccasional
Photo credit: (c) Dmitry Ivanov, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 0 records
- February: 15 records
- March: 11 records
- April: 37 records
- May: 41 records
- June: 30 records
- July: 18 records
- August: 7 records
- September: 5 records
- October: 6 records
- November: 13 records
- December: 6 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 20–22 °C
Photos
(c) Dmitry Ivanov, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist 
(c) りなべる, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
Names and classification
Names in 2 more languages
- Japanese
- ケアシホンヤドカリ
- Korean
- 털다리참집게
Similar species
Long-clawed hermit crabPagurus longicarpus
Flatclaw hermitPagurus pollicaris
New Zealand Hermit CrabPagurus novizealandiae
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 187 open-data records from 1984 to 2021.
- Species data updated November 5, 2026.
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