LINKS

Australia

Australian Land Hermit Crab Owners Society - Yahoo!Group

A sister group to Hermies YahooGroups, this is a group for people living in Australia to discuss their Aussie Hermit Crabs. It is free to join and not as many emails as the main Hermies group.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/auslandhermitcrabs

Sweden

http://www.netforces.org/marie/jp/eng/index.htm

United Kingdom

Hermit Crab Crazy

Lots of information, photos, hermit crab shows, food ideas, hermie colouring in and more. A fun site and very attractively made.Susie is in Belfast, Ireland, in the United Kingdom.

http://hermies.2ya.com

United States

Agent's Crabitat Page

http://agentcrab.wsmcafe.com

Christa's Land Hermit Crabs

Christa's site with information about conventions, adoptions, caresheets and more. Based in the United States with information about Ecuadorian hermit crab care.

http://www.hermit-crabs.com

Lisa's Land Hermit Crabs Site

Based on flash technology, this site is filled with information and includes an adoption centre, hermit crab board game and more. Takes a little while to load but worth the wait.

http://welcome.to/hermitcrabhappy

Land Hermit Crab Forum

New to hermit crabs? Visit another land hermit crab forum targeted at new owners.

http://www.landhermitcrabs.com

Scientific Sites about hermit crabs

The Coconut Crab: A Comprehensive Account Of The Biology And Conservation Issues

http://www.coconutcrab.co.uk/index.htm

The Biology of Anomurans: the Hermit Crab

This website produced by the "Crustacea Laboratory at Museum Victoria" is an invaluable resource for research on the topic if Hermit Crabs. The information is not specifically about land-based hermit crabs but it does cover issues such as Anatomy, Reproduction, Sense Organs and Distribution. There is a wonderful photo of a Hermit Crab zoea (infant stage of hermit crab) which is a must to see.

http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/crust/hermbiol.html

Life and Adaptions to Water - Land Hermit crab

Information from the Museum of South Australia about the land hermit crab, Coenobita perlatus, in the wild. Information on Mangroves and threats to land hermit crabs in the Darwin area. "Land hermit crab : Coenobita perlatus. Coen = common obita = downhill, destruction"

http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/water/hermit.htm

Australian Museum Fact Sheets - Arthropods

Interesting site on Arthropods. Points covered:
* What are arthropods? * What are their origins?
* What arthropod research is the Australian Museum doing?

http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/arthropods.htm

Introducing the Hermit Crab

Interesting webpage on hermit crabs. Includes pen drawings of hermit crabs in and out of their shell.Text and illustrations by Ton Veltman

http://www.xs4all.nl/~pal/hermit.htm

Crustacea (British Marine Life Study Society

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/crustace.htm

Hermit Crabs (NE Atlantic) - Younger Readers version of the above

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/Hermits.htm

Anomura (NE Atlantic) - Great pic of hermit crab showing 5th legs

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/Anomura.htm

Hermit Crabs in Torbay

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/Hermit4.htm

BMLSS : Crustacea: moulting, changing shells

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/Ecdysis.htm

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