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中文/日本語 |
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Click different
parts of the land hermit crab |
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Scientific name: |
Coenobita
compressus |
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Chinese name: |
厄瓜多爾產陸寄居蟹(temp.
name) |
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English name: |
Pacific/Ecuadorian LHC
Land
Hermit Crab / E-Crab / E |
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Japanese name: |
エクアドリアン |
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Max length of front part (head) of cephalothorax: |
12mm
~ may be the smallest species |
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Distribution(Map): |
Northern Ecuador to
Chile |
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Habitat: |
Live near beach
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Chirping: |
Can make sound |
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Favorite Shell: |
Nerita scabricosta,
Deshayes,
Valenciennes,
Babylonia areolata,
they
prefer
the shell which have wide mouth. |
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*Remark |
They are
very active and run very fast. They run forward,
sideways and backwards at all the same speeds.
As the body colour of this species is
also various, so it may be misunderstood as
C. rugosus
, but we can identify these 2 species by looking at the
eyestalks.
There is no black-brown stripes on
the eyestalks of
C. compressus.
They require sea
water as they live near the beach and used to drink sea
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Body colour can be Light Brown, Tan,
Orange-brown and Dark Gray. Younger tend to be green/blue in
colour (bottom picture).
There are many white granule /
spot on the whole body.
Black diagnol (/)
(Red
circle)
stripe behind the bases of the outer antennae's, on the side
of the body. Harder to see on darker one's.
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Eyes are
elongated in shape, Some people just think that their eyes
like"，"(comma).
Eyestalks
are
light
brown in colour.
 Their
eyes
are not always in black. Some are in
brown or even red colour, like below photo.
(Thanks
to the members form
Hermit Crab Association
to
provide us this information)
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Left claw is larger than right claw.
There are about 4~5 ridge (////) on the upper part of the
big claw.
Dactylus of
2nd
Walking legs
(Red circle) is darker than other parts of the legs.
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Abdomen is quite short and fat (Red
circle).
(no photo)
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