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Coenobita

Caribbean hermit crab, Coenobita clypeatus

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Anomura
Superfamily:	Paguroidea
Family:	Coenobitidae
Genus:	*Coenobita* Latreille, 1829

Species

C. brevimanus
C. cavipes
C. carnescens
C. clypeatus
C. compressus
C. olivieri
C. perlatus
C. pseudorugosus
C. purpureus
C. rubescens
C. rugosus
C. scaevola
C. spinosus
C. variabilis
C. violascens

The genus Coenobita contains the thirteen species of terrestrial hermit crabs. They are able to live on land because of their modified gills, although they still require a warm, humid environment. They can live several miles from water in moist forests and jungles.

Land hermit crabs live in colonies of 100 and more, feeding on plant and animal matter. They are omnivorous scavengers which eat plant and animal matter, including fallen fruit, rotting wood, decaying animals and fish.

Coenobita are named after and share a name with the original Latin term for the Cenobitic monastic order, dervied from the Greek κοινός and βίος (koinos and bios, meaning "common" and "life"). Ironically, Cenobitic monks stress the value of communal living; eremitic monastic orders are those in favour of hermetic lifestyles.

Terrestrial hermit crabs as pets

The land hermit crabs most commonly kept as pets in the United States are the Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus, sometimes called the "purple pincher") and the Ecuadorian hermit crab (Coenobita compressus). Other species such as Coenobita brevimanus, Coenobita rugosus, Coenobita perlatus and Coenobita cavipes are slowly becoming equally as common.

In Australia, the only land hermit crabs once kept as pets were the Australian land hermit crab (Coenobita variabilis) and the strawberry land hermit crab (Coenobita perlatus), which are native to Australia, Indonesia and other islands in the Pacific Ocean, but due to the fact that they are critically threatened, they are no longer sold as pets in Australia.

Coenobita perlatus

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C. clypeatus

Binomial name
Coenobita clypeatus
(Fabricius, 1787)

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Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829

Subphyla and Classes

Subphylum Trilobitomorpha
Trilobita - trilobites (extinct)
Subphylum Chelicerata

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crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods, comprising approximately 52,000 described species ^[1], and are usually treated as a subphylum ^[2].
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Malacostraca
Latreille, 1802

Subclasses

Eumalacostraca
Hoplocarida
Phyllocarida
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The Malacostraca (Greek: "soft shell") are the largest subgroup of crustaceans and include most of the animals that non-experts
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Decapoda
Latreille, 1802

Suborders

Dendrobranchiata
Pleocyemata
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The decapods or Decapoda are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crayfish,
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Anomura
MacLeay, 1838

Superfamilies

Galatheoidea
Hippoidea
Lomisoidea
Paguroidea

“Anomala” redirects here. For other uses, see Anomala (disambiguation).

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Coenobitidae
Dana, 1851

Genera

Birgus
Coenobita

Coenobitidae are a family of hermit crabs with only two genera:

* Birgus, the coconut crab, and

* Coenobita

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Pierre André Latreille (November 20, 1762 - February 6, 1833) was a French entomologist. His works describing insects assigned many of the insect taxa still in use today.
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C. brevimanus

Binomial name
Coenobita brevimanus
Dana, 1852

Coenobita brevimanus is a species of land hermit crab native to the east coast of Africa and the south west Pacific Ocean.
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C. cavpies

Binomial name
Coenobita cavipes
Stimpson, 1858

Coenobita cavipes is a species of land hermit crab native to the eastern parts of Africa, the Philippines, China, Japan, Malaysia,
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C. compressus

Binomial name
Coenobita compressus
Herbst, 1791

The Ecuadorian hermit crab (Coenobita compressus) also known as the Pacific hermit crab
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C. perlatus

Binomial name
Coenobita perlatus
Milne-Edwards, 1837

The strawberry land hermit crab (Coenobita perlatus) is a species of terrestrial hermit crab.
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C. purpureus

Binomial name
Coenobita purpureus
Stimpson, 1858

Coenobita purpureus (colloquially referred to as the purple land hermit crab
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C. rugosus

Binomial name
Coenobita rugosus
H. Milne-Edwards, 1837

Coenobita rugosus (colloquially referred to as ruggie
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C. variabilis

Binomial name
Coenobita variabilis
McCulloch, 1909

The Australian land hermit crab (Coenobita variabilis
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C. violascens

Binomial name
Coenobita violascens
Heller, 1862

Coenobita violascens is a species of land hermit crab native to Japan. It is also found on various other Pacific islands.
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A gill is a respiration organ that functions for the extraction of oxygen from water and the excretion of carbon dioxide. Unlike many small aquatic animals, which can absorb oxygen through the entire surface of their bodies, more complex aquatic organisms have gills specially
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Scavengers are animals that consume already dead animals (carrion). Scavengers play an important role in the ecosystem by contributing to the decomposition of dead animal remains. Decomposers complete this process, by consuming the remains left by scavengers.
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