Coenobita cavipes: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Coenobitidae
- Genus
- Coenobita
- Species
- Coenobita cavipes
- Scientific Name
- Coenobita cavipes
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Coenobita cavipes
Coenobita cavipes (Passionfruit Hermit) is a species of land hermit crab native to the eastern parts of Africa, the Indonesia, Philippines, China, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Polynesia, and Micronesia. While these hermit crabs are terrestrial, they prefer to reside near the shores for access of both water and land.
C. cavipes usually uses empty turbo shells, and occasionally part of a hard passion fruit.
...Coenobita cavipes in languages:
- Chinese
- 凹足陸寄居蟹
- English
- Land Hermit Crab
- English
- Cavipes Hermit Crab
- Japanese
- オカヤドカリ
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Coenobita brevimanus
- Coenobita carnescens
- Coenobita cavipes
- Coenobita clypeatus
- Coenobita compressus
- Coenobita lila
- Coenobita longitarsis
- Coenobita olivieri
- Coenobita perlatus
- Coenobita pseudorugosus
- Coenobita purpureus
- Coenobita rubescens
- Coenobita rugosus
- Coenobita scaevola
- Coenobita spinosus
- Coenobita variabilis
- Coenobita violascens