For a while, all of my hermit crabs except Tiny would die within a year or two. Now this one has been here about two years, and I think it's time to give it a name...Update: My mom just named it Parker :)
Summary[edit] Description: Coenobita purpureus Stimpson, 1858 English: Sample of Okinawan Blueberry Land Hermit Crab. Date: 3 June 2005. Source: Own work. Author: Felix J.Wang. Permission(Reusing this file): Permitted for personal collection / use.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Author: Mike Quigley Description: Coenobita Compressus (Ecuadorian Land Hermit Crab). Date: 6 December 2005 (original upload date). Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. Author: Quigabyte at English Wikipedia.
Summary[edit] Description: A Terrestrial Hermit Crab climbs an agave near the coast of southwest Mexico. The species is quite widespread on the coastlines of the Pacific Ocean. Date: 19 December 2013, 22:01. Source: Coenobita compressus-- the Pacific Hermit Crab. Author: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada.
Biologist Randi Rotjan uses hermit crabs to demonstrate vacancy chains, just in time for the 2012 election. A Humanimal Doodle from award-winning children's author/illustrator Karen Romano Young
Photograph by Dirk van der Made (user:DirkvdM). A hermit crab (Coenobita compressus) at the coast in Parque Nacional Corcovado, Costa Rica, 26 March 2004. ( English: Hermit crab are members of the superfamily Paguroidea ) : This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution 1.0 Generic license.:. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0 CC BY 1.0 Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 truetrue.