Coenobita
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- The junior homonym Coenobita Gistl, 1848 is now the moth genus Ectropis.
The genus Coenobita contains 21 species[1] of terrestrial hermit crabs.[2] Several species in this genus are kept as pets.
Ecology
Coenobita species carry water in the gastropod shells they inhabit, allowing them to stay out of water for a long time.[3]
Distribution
The majority of the species are found in the Indo-Pacific region, with only one species in West Africa, one species occurring along the Atlantic coast of the Americas, and one species occurring on the Pacific coast of the Americas.[4]
| Image | Species | Authority | Year | Distribution [4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Coenobita brevimanus.jpg | Coenobita brevimanus | Dana | 1852 | Indo-Pacific |
| Coenobita carnescens | Dana | 1851 | Pacific Ocean | |
| File:Coenobita cavipes Nigrum in Achatina fullica.jpg | Coenobita cavipes | Stimpson | 1858 | Indo-Pacific |
| File:CoenobitaClypeatus.JPG | Coenobita clypeatus | Script error: No such module "sort". | 1787 | Western Atlantic |
| File:Coenobita compressus (habitus).jpg | Coenobita compressus | Script error: No such module "sort". | 1836 | Eastern Pacific |
| Coenobita lila | Rahayu | 2016 | Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia | |
| Coenobita longitarsis | De Man | 1902 | East Indies | |
| Coenobita olivieri | Owen | 1839 | Pacific Ocean | |
| File:Bernardl'hermitedenis.JPG | Coenobita perlatus | Script error: No such module "sort". | 1837 | Indo-Pacific |
| Coenobita pseudorugosus | Nakasone | 1988 | Indo-Pacific | |
| File:C.purpureus Stramonita armigera 2.jpg | Coenobita purpureus | Stimpson | 1858 | Japan |
| Coenobita rubescens | Greeff | 1884 | West Africa | |
| File:Coenobita rugosus 4.jpg | Coenobita rugosus | Script error: No such module "sort". | 1837 | Indo-Pacific |
| Coenobita scaevola | Script error: No such module "sort". | 1775 | Indian Ocean, Red Sea | |
| File:Henderson Island-110256.jpg | Coenobita spinosus | Script error: No such module "sort". | 1837 | Polynesia & Australia |
| File:Coenobita variabilis.jpg | Coenobita variabilis | McCulloch | 1909 | Australia |
| File:C.violascens Chicoreus microphyllus 1.jpg | Coenobita violascens | Heller | 1862 | Pacific Ocean |
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Taxonomy
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 Script error: No such module "Lang"., meaning "commune"; the genus is masculine in gender.[5]
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