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Diogenes senex
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Anomura
Family:	Diogenidae
Genus:	Diogenes
Species:	D. senex
Binomial name
Diogenes senex Heller, 1865

Diogenes senex is a species of left handed hermit crab (family Diogenidae) first described in 1865 by Camill Heller.

It is endemic to Australia, where it is found in estuaries, and intertidal flats in the muddy sands of subtidal zones of the coasts of New South Wales, the Northern Territory, and Queensland.

References

1. ^ "Species Diogenes senex Heller, 1865". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
2. Camill Heller (1865). "Crustaceen". Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair (in German). Wikidata Q126943020.

External links

• Occurrence data from GBIF

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