| Dardanus megistos | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Superfamily: | Paguroidea |
| Family: | Diogenidae |
| Genus: | Dardanus |
| Species: | D. megistos |
| Binomial name | |
| Dardanus megistos J. F. W. Herbst, 1804 [1] |
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Dardanus megistos, the white-spotted hermit crab or spotted hermit crab, is a species of hermit crab, living in reefs in the Indo-Pacific region from Africa to the South China Sea and Hawaii.[1][2] Dardanus megistos can attain a maximum size of 8 inches (20 cm).