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The coconut crab (Birgus latro) is a terrestrial species of giant hermit crab, and is also known as the robber crab or palm thief. It is the largest terrestrial arthropod known, with a weight of up to 4.1 kg (9 lb).
Hermit crab species range in size and shape, from species only a few millimeters long to Coenobita brevimanus (Indos Crab), which can approach the size of a coconut and live 12–70 years. The shell-less hermit crab Birgus latro (coconut crab) is the world's largest terrestrial invertebrate.
King crabs, which most scientists believe evolved from hermit crab ancestors [5] [6] First appearance: Late Cenozoic; Porcelain crabs, which are closely related to squat lobsters [7] First appearance: Late Jurassic; The hairy stone crab (Lomis hirta) [8] Hermit crabs: The coconut crab (Birgus latro) Patagurus rex [9]
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Female coenobitids return to the sea to hatch their eggs and their larvae develop through planktonic zoeal stages to a megalopa, in a similar way as the marine hermit crabs. Just like these species, after settlement, terrestrial hermit crabs megalopae recognize and co-opt gastropods shells, before migrating into the land and molting to the ...
Coenobita is closely related to the coconut crab, Birgus latro, with the two genera making up the family Coenobitidae.The name Coenobita was coined by Pierre André Latreille in 1829, from an Ecclesiastical Latin word, ultimately from the Greek κοινόβιον, meaning "commune"; the genus is masculine in gender.
An experiment conducted in 2007 reportedly verified the coconut crab’s ability to pull the bones from a pig and spread them across a large area.
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