Coenobita Violascens Nickname

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:22 pm

Due to a recent poll by Mokulele_Hawai'i showing some beautiful photos of his Coenobita Violascens, we have somewhat decided to try and come up with an official nickname for the species. Reference photos are here.... viewtopic.php?p=300987#300987 (they are incredible.) I'm putting this up to take any suggestions, and then 2 weeks from today will complile them together in a poll. So far we have two current suggestions....

Blues and Violets. Not the most creative, but certainly fitting.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:29 pm

Purplies

Blueys

OIF_VET · Post by **OIF_VET** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:41 pm

atat9 wrote:Due to a recent poll by Mokulele_Hawai'i showing some beautiful photos of his Coenobita variabilis, we have somewhat decided to try and come up with an official nickname for the species. Reference photos are here.... viewtopic.php?p=300987#300987 (they are incredible.) I'm putting this up to take any suggestions, and then 2 weeks from today will complile them together in a poll. So far we have two current suggestions....

Blues and Violets. Not the most creative, but certainly fitting.

Dont want to burst the Bubble..BUT! mokulele's Crab is a C.Violascens
And Not a C.Variabilis...Variabilis are known as the Australian Crazy Crab...
The C.Violascens has no Nick name as yet.
Hence the Violet Nickname at this Point.
The Aussie CC more closely resembles the E.
Thanks

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:43 pm

The title needs editing lol.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:44 pm

OOPS! Thanks OIF, I copy and pasted the wrong Genus species name. That was a big ol' typo on my part... It's fixed!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:28 pm

This might osund stupid. But how 'bout the "bruisers". Cause they look black and dark blue??? O well, thats what I thought of.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:05 pm

Howabout V's or Voilas or Scenies, they sound dumb but it might work

If you havnt notiecd I used part of the name (Ruggies =Rugosus and Cavis = Cavipes)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:09 pm

Why not stick with the obvious like

PP for purple pinch....obvious

Ruggie for Rugosus....obvious

E for ecuadorians....obvious

Cave's for Cavipes....obvious

Straws ......well thiers is cause they look like strawberries

Indo's well that's cause they are indigo in color

Why not Viola's for Violascens wouldn't that be the obvious for that crab??? Just a thought!!!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:18 pm

ElliEve wrote: PP for purple pinch

E for ecuadorians

Those two abbreviations come from the crabs nick-name, and not their Genus Species name. Es are C. compressus, not really Ecuadorian, and PP's are C. clypeatus, Purple Pincher was just a nick-name assigned to them because of the color of their pincher. And what about C. Variabilis, Crazy Crabs? I'm not saying we should stray from the obvious, as we really haven't been. Just showing that not all names come from the obvious.

hermiegirl · Post by **hermiegirl** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:57 am

I'm all for violas

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:07 am

me too!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:49 am

Despite the abbreviations for nicknames, I still think that we should go with viola...or even violets too...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:18 pm

We should go wth violets since their color is violet, and their full name is similar.Violas only goes with the name.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:03 pm

They are purple? Oops.... guess thats why nobody else has agreed with blues. I'm slightly colorblind, especially with blues and purples...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:16 pm

I don't see anything wrong with calling them Violascens... I think we should just go with that.

HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Coenobita Violascens Nickname

Coenobita Violascens Nickname

Re: Coenobita variabilis Nickname

hmm

Re: hmm