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  2. Petrochirus diogenes - Wikipedia

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    Petrochirus diogenes. (Linnaeus, 1758) Petrochirus diogenes is a species of giant marine hermit crab. This species lives in the Caribbean Sea, and often inhabits conch shells. [ 1 ] This species of hermit crab is large enough that it can inhabit a fully grown shell of the queen conch. It will attack and eat a conch, thus obtaining a meal and a ...

  3. Coconut crab - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Coconut crab. 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 distance from the tip of one leg to the tip of another can be as wide as 1 m (3 ft 3 in).

  4. Hermit crab - Wikipedia

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    Hermit crab species range in size and shape, from species with a carapace only a few millimetres long to Coenobita brevimanus, which can live 12–70 years and can approach the size of a coconut. The shell-less hermit crab Birgus latro (coconut crab) is the world's largest terrestrial invertebrate. [21]

  5. Dardanus megistos - Wikipedia

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    Dardanus megistos can reach a body length of about 20 cm (7.9 in). [4] These large crabs have a bright red body with small white eyespots surrounded by black. Their bodies are covered with long erect coarse hairs of a dark red color. They have a pair of long white primary antennae or antennules, a pair of secondary antennae, stalked green brown ...

  6. Caribbean hermit crab - Wikipedia

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    A Caribbean hermit crab in the Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida. The Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus), also known as the soldier crab, [2] West Atlantic crab, tree crab, or purple pincher (due to the distinctive purple claw), is a species of land hermit crab native to the west Atlantic, Belize, southern Florida, [3] Venezuela, and the West Indies.

  7. Diogenidae - Wikipedia

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    The Diogenidae are a family of hermit crabs, sometimes known as "left-handed hermit crabs" because in contrast to most other hermit crabs, its left chela (claw) is enlarged instead of the right. It comprises 429 extant species, [2] and a further 46 extinct species, [1] making it the second-largest family of marine hermit crabs, after the Paguridae.

  8. King crab - Wikipedia

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    The red king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus, is a very large species, sometimes reaching a carapace width of 11 in (28 cm) and a leg span of 6 ft (1.8 m). Its natural range is the Bering Sea around the Kamchatka Peninsula area, between the Aleutian Islands and St. Lawrence Island.

  9. Coenobita perlatus - Wikipedia

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    C. perlatus. Binomial name. Coenobita perlatus. H. Milne-Edwards, 1837 [1] Crustaceans portal. Coenobita perlatus is a species of terrestrial hermit crab. It is known as the strawberry hermit crab because of its reddish-orange colours. It is a widespread scavenger across the Indo-Pacific, and wild-caught specimens are traded to hobby aquarists.

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