17 Species of Hermit Crabs! (check them out!)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:49 pm

a member thinks she might have a Coenobita scaevola check it out...

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:23 am

Featherscrabs wrote:a member thinks she might have a Coenobita scaevola check it out...

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wow! If it turns out she actually has one then where can she give the information she obtains from actually owning one to? I'm asking because right now not much is known, so any knowledge she can gather from having one will be greatly beneficial to the research on this species. Does anyone have a source that she may be able to get in contact with to help further develop the research on them?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:19 am

It looks like it may be a Rug after all.

dbolack · Post by **dbolack** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:26 am

*Kathy* wrote: Me too!!! I believe that one of our European members was fortunate enough to find one! It is my goal to have a few of those beauties at some point! I wish they would export them to the USA. :roll:

I would swear I remember reading last winter that someone Tony? knew/knew of was attempting to do just that. And He wasn't exporting from Japan.

Has anyone ever found a cite stating they are endangered ( in Japan or anywhere else? )

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:16 pm

I believe Mokulele_Hawai'i Has a C. purpureus and a Birgus latro. And Cisnegra has a C. spinosus

Ellinj0206 · Post by **Ellinj0206** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:41 pm

WOW!! That is amazing. Some of the species are just beautiful!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:02 pm

This whole time, I thought there were only 11 known species! From reading their habitats, it would seem that every warm coast in the world has at least one land hermit crab species that lives there

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It would be nice if exotic hermit crabs were treated like reptiles, in the sense that interested owners had to work for a license to own them (I've heard some owners say that their proper care is very similar to reptiles like Iguanas anyway).

troppo · Post by **troppo** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:08 am

Strange......If I'm not mistaken, C scaevola looks alot like a pale C variabilis.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:49 am

Moved to Misc by crabber.

HCA: Hermit Crab Association

17 Species of Hermit Crabs! (check them out!)

Did you know there were 17 species?