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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).
The Coenobitidae are the family of terrestrial hermit crabs, widely known for their land-living habits as adults. They are found in coastal tropical regions around the world and require access to the ocean to breed. Although coenobitids are fully terrestrial as adults, they spend their marine life as planktonic larvae.
The world's largest terrestrial arthropod, the coconut crab (Birgus latro) is abundant on the islands of the Chagos archipelago, with an overall density in the conservation area on Diego Garcia of 298 crabs per hectare – the highest ever recorded. [13]
Cardisoma guanhumi, Woodford Hill, Dominica Gecarcinus lateralis, Woodford Hill Guinotia dentata, Emerald Pool, Dominica Atlantic ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata), Calibishie, Dominica. Thirty-two species of decapod crustaceans have been recorded in Dominica, an island nation in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles.
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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.
But if the 13 bones did belong to Earhart, what happened to the other 193 in a human skeleton that weren’t found? Credit the crabs: The Brits who uncovered the bones said “coconut crabs had ...
Coconut crabs then descended up her corpse, ... That theory was supported, in part, by a report that bones consistent with the description of Earhart were found on Nikumaroro in 1940, ...